How is this allowed, you do not even have to be a politician to be elected as president of the USA
In Australia you have to be a member of parliament and have the full support of your political party
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While Australia's constitution was modelled off America's, Australia's government is still heavily borrowed from the West Minister System, where Parliamentry Supremacy exists and the Prime Minister is both a executive and legislature.
Australia was still fairly conservative to British Imperial jdeals and couldn't go all the way to a American style government. In America we use a fully seperate three branches of government, only exception is the office of Vice President, who is Legislative Branch as President of the Senate, but can assume aspects of Presidential Authority over anything except the Department of Defense with Presidential permission. President still has to sign everything though, and can override any tie breaking vote a VP makes with a Veto, so it is a fairly powerless position, unless you plan on using the 25th Amendment to replace the president which Kamala Harris apparently threatened to do if Biden doesn't step down.
Ummm..... our constitution goes farther. In order to be a supreme court justice, you don't even need to be a judge, or pass a bar exam. Heck, you technically don't even need to be human, we can appoint a monkey to that position if we really wanted to.
Congressmen and the Presidency have stipulations on who can be in office, with residency and age requirements.
Australia was still fairly conservative to British Imperial jdeals and couldn't go all the way to a American style government. In America we use a fully seperate three branches of government, only exception is the office of Vice President, who is Legislative Branch as President of the Senate, but can assume aspects of Presidential Authority over anything except the Department of Defense with Presidential permission. President still has to sign everything though, and can override any tie breaking vote a VP makes with a Veto, so it is a fairly powerless position, unless you plan on using the 25th Amendment to replace the president which Kamala Harris apparently threatened to do if Biden doesn't step down.
Ummm..... our constitution goes farther. In order to be a supreme court justice, you don't even need to be a judge, or pass a bar exam. Heck, you technically don't even need to be human, we can appoint a monkey to that position if we really wanted to.
Congressmen and the Presidency have stipulations on who can be in office, with residency and age requirements.
