POLICIES, GOVERNMENT & RELIGION

11.05.2015 00:00

Policies and Government.

Legislature: The bicameral Congress, made up of the Senate and House of Representatives. Its function is to create federal,
Executive: The president is the commander in chief of the military, can veto bills before they become official laws and appoints the cabinet members
Judiciary: The Supreme Court and lower federal courts.

Religion.

United States is officially a secular state, The leading non-Christian faiths were Judaism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), Islam (0.6%), Hinduism (0.4%), and Unitarian Universalism (0.3% ) .167 the survey also reported that 16.1% of Americans described themselves as agnostic, atheist, or simply no religion.

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