Author's note: I am writing this because I wanted to see how many differences between our government and the government in the thirteen colonies there were. I hope you enjoy my essay.
The 13 colonies had a different way of doing things in their government than we do in ours. How many ways were they different. There were some minor differences and there were some major differences between the two governments. "What were the noticeable differences and similarities between us and them?" In my opinion we have a better government than them and my research will show you why.
Some things that I think our government has in common with the colonial government is that we both have leaders that tell us what to do. Both governments were/are made up of people that represent different "parties" or ideas on how to get things done. Both have taxes and both can have problems within them. The amount of people involved in both governments has grown. Both of our governments had a house of representatives voted in by the people.
Also some things that are unique to our government is that we have a democracy where "we the people" get to choose who leads us. We choose who are in the seats of power in Washington and our individual states, and we choose as a nation, not a colony or just one person, who we want leading us. In their government the king (who was all the way across the ocean) in England was the one who chose who the governor of each and every individual colony was and who composed the council for every colony. Their house of representatives was under the control of the governor and the council. Our house can act independently if they want. In their government, the governor could do anything he wanted. The council could create laws and pass them on to the governor but the house had to give their bills to the council in order for it to go to the governor. If the governor didn't like what it was, he just said no and they couldn't do anything about it. Now our governor can veto things (say no) but the house and senate can override his veto and make it happen anyway.
In their government the governor could do anything they wanted because they were like the king of that colony. The council could create laws and pass them on to the governor but the house of representatives had to give their bills to the council in order for it to go to the governor. All in all they had a government that was run like a monarchy. Some of the things we have that they didn't have was we have three parties that all hold the same amount of power. We have our bills go through all three parties to be made into a law when they had to go through one at the least. I think we should be grateful we have the government we do.
The differences I have listed are just the start of the differences. We took what was wrong with the old one and "fixed" it. As you read this and find differences I didn't list, please feel free to write them in the comment are and I will try to work them in. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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