🔺The Unitary governing system:
• Places its power in one central governing system
• Very little political power exists outside the central government
• The powers of this governing system are uniformly applied throughout
• All major government decisions are made by the central government
• If smaller government units are established they are controlled by the
central government and can be abolished by such without their consent
• Many unitary governments are either dictatorships or totalitarian
• France, although Democratic, is governed by a Unitarian body
• Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Barbados, Morocco, and Spain are examples of
unitary monarchy government
• China, Afghanistan, Italy, Zambia, and the Ukraine are examples of
unitary republic government

🔺The Federal Governing System:
• Distributes power from the national government to local/state
governments to adopt laws that are reasonable to the country as a whole
and the localities
• Power may be diffused in the federal system
• Multi-national states often have a federal system
• Larger countries often adopt the federal system since constituents may
live in areas remote to the location of the central government
• Ethnicities with in a country may lead to a federal system as their rules
and laws may vary. An example of this is the small country of Belgium
which balances the needs two distinct ethnic groups
• The United States has a federal governing system with a national
government and Constitution, in conjunction with states governments
and constitutions

¶Federal Government: A federal government is a system that divides up power between a strong national government and smaller local governments•


¶Unitary Government: A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate•