USA HISTORY

POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

RECONSTRUCTION OF JAPANS GOVERNMENT

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

MacArthur set up a government where citizens choose representatives for the Diet (legislature), who then choose Prime Minister. What is this type of government?

A	presidential democracy
B	parliamentary democracy
C	autocracy
D	theocracy

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -In politics, a diet (/ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdiːət/) is a formal deliberative assembly.

Detailed explanation-2: -The head of state appoints the leader of the political party holding a plurality of seats in parliament as prime minister.

Detailed explanation-3: -The voters who live in an area elect one representative. For Lok Sabha elections, India is divided into 543 constituencies. The representative elected from each constituency is called a Member of Parliament or an MP. Each state is divided into a specific number of Assembly constituencies.

Detailed explanation-4: -parliamentary system, democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor.

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