Since 1977, the government has shut down on seventeen occasions. There were six shutdowns during the Carter Administration, all of them lasting for more than a week and one for seventeen days. There were eight shutdowns during the Reagan Administration, none longer than three days, and one three-day shutdown during the first Bush Administration. The two most recent government shutdowns occurred...in 1995 and 1996. The first lasted for five days in November, and the second for twenty one days in December and January.

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It seems that the question is "The events described in the text are examples of which political situation?"

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The events described in the text provide evidence of the following political situation: a notorious lack of cooperation between the President of the United States and the US Congress, or in other words, the US executive branch and the legislative branch.

And this mostly happens when the United President does not have a majority in Congress, in the House of Representatives, or the Senate. When this happens, it is difficult for the President to pass legislation that favors him or his political party.

In this case, they have to negotiate, but the negotiation has to think about how to benefit the United States citizens. Unfortunately, most of the time the branches do not have in mind the best interests of the citizens, but their own political and partisan interests.

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separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.   the intent is to prevent the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.  

the traditional characterizations of the powers of the branches of american government are:

* the legislative branch is responsible for enacting the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government.

* the executive branch is responsible for implementing and administering the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch.

* the judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.

forty state constitutions specify that government be divided into three branches:   legislative, executive and judicial.   california illustrates this approach; "the powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial.   persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this constitution."

while separation of powers is key to the workings of american government, no democratic system exists with an absolute separation of powers or an absolute lack of separation of powers. governmental powers and responsibilities intentionally overlap; they are too complex and interrelated to be neatly compartmentalized. as a result, there is an inherent measure of competition and conflict

minnesota:   minnesota house research,   separation of powers: when statutes and court rules conflict, 2005