Keyword: «presidential republic»

This article analyzes the root cause of state government form establishment, which showed that this process is not a spontaneous phenomenon. Against this background, the main spheres of social (state) life are categorized, which may to some extent change the way in which the supreme authority is organized in the state. Subsequently, groups of political, legal and socio-economic factors were singled out. In this article, the first group is considered in detail, with examples of these conditions ways of influence on the government form.

The presidential republic is historically the first form of the republic in which the president is the head of state. It still dominates the republican form of government. The homeland of the presidential republic was the United States of America, which in 1787 consolidated this form of government in its Constitution. Many nations followed their path, but in fact, no other country in the world succeeded in the presidential republic transplantation. Attempts to establish it everywhere ended in the establishment of some form of dictatorship and hypertrophied authorities of the state head.

The United States of America became the birthplace of the classical presidential Republic. The war for independence clearly showed the rebellious colonists that the country desperately needed its own strong head of state, who should be the head of the executive power, and the fear of a possible “tyranny of assembly” led to the rejection of traditional British parliamentarism. The need to create an effective system of checks and balances realized by them led not only to the emergence of an independent judiciary, but also to the real possibilities of each federal branch of power to exercise not only their own powers, but also, depending on the situation, to neutralize the attempts of other branches of power to go beyond the constitutional authority and usurp state power.