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Unit 3

POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE USA

1. Read and memorize the following words, word-
combinations and word groups:

legislative - законодавчий
executive - виконавчий
judicial - судовий
to elect - обирати
governor - губернатор
tax - податок
to include - включати
Supreme Court - Верховний Суд
responsibility - відповідальність
voter - виборець

2. Read and translate the text:

The United States is a democratic federal republic. Individual states
hold sovereignty over their territory and have rights that are not
reserved by the federal government. Each state has its own legislature
and a directly elected governor. The federal president is indirectly
elected. Voters in each state determine by a majority whom they
would choose as president; they then send delegates to vote according
to that choice. The delegates' votes determine who the president is.
Presidential elections are held every four years. The directly elected
federal legislature (Congress) has two houses: the House of
Representatives, whose members serve two-year terms, and the
Senate, whose members serve six-year terms. The voting age is 18.
There is a separate judicial branch.
There are two main political parties in the USA: the
Democratic (symbolized by a “donkey”) and the Republican (its
symbol is an “elephant”). The US President is both the head of the
state and of the government. The President is assisted by
Secretaries who are at the head of the executive departments.