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presidential government

noun

Definition of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT

:  a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature
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First Known Use of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT

1857

Other Government and Politics Terms

agent provocateur, agitprop, autarky, cabal, egalitarianism, federalism, hegemony, plenipotentiary, popular sovereignty, socialism

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