Talk:Presidential system

term "presidential system"

It seems like a very poor term, since by far the majority of countries with a president also have a prime minister. I've never heard it before, does it have academic currency? I can imagine it might be use in the US to contrast with Westminster systems, but it seems very misleading as a general term. Is there a better term? "Congressional system" seems to be just as US-centric, and implies something about the relationship between the two houses, but any term would seem better than "presidential system".

Removals

I removed the following, which I think had little to do with the topic:

World presidentialism

A frequent demand is that the UN become "more democratic." This raises fundamental questions about the nature and role of the UN. The UN is not yet a world government, rather a forum for the world's sovereign states to debate issues and determine collective courses of action. Since the large majority of the world's states are now democracies, the UN is in a sense an "indirect democracy" already - the majority of countries cast votes at the UN in accordance (at least in theory) with the wishes of the electorates that elected them.

A direct and participative democracy would request the election of the United Nations Secretary-General by vote of the citizens of the democratic countries (World presidentialism).

See: United Nations#Reforming the UN, totalitarian democracy, world democracy.

David.Monniaux 09:03, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Didn't this used to be its own page? - Nat Krause 09:43, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Impeachment of a President

Someone doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground; some previous contributor thinks it's impossible to remove a President from office early.