Public office
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A government is a group of people who perform the following functions:
- nominate office holders,
- elect office holders,
- make laws or rules,
- execute laws or rules,
- judge breaches of laws.
These functions may reside in one person, a group, or with all the people collectively. Or these function can be divided in various ways.
These functions could be performed by the people as in a direct democracy, or by certain office holders. In a representative democracy, public offices are divided into legislative, executive, and judicial. However, there are exceptions, as in the case of Supreme Court Justices, their nomination is reserved to the President, and their confirmation (or election) to Congress.
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