presidential government

noun

1. a system of government in which the powers of the president are constitutionally separate from those of the legislature.

Word History and Origins

Origin of presidential government¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Once installed as head of government, he delivers all too well on his promise of democratic reforms, incessantly polling his citizens on even the most trivial matters until they become so worn down that they willingly submit to fascism — or, as Rimmer describes it, “a more streamlined form of presidential government.”

From New York Times

An omnipresent micromanaging federal government will necessarily be presidential government, with the chief executive’s discretion unbound, and unsupervised by a Congress that manages to be both harried and lethargic.

From Washington Post

“The presidential government system is not coercive but a specific choice that the history directed us to,” he told his guests.

From New York Times

The nomination of a figure like Trump, a clear threat to both the professed beliefs of his party’s leaders and to basic competence in presidential government, is the sort of shattering event that in the past would have prompted a real schism or independent candidacy.

From Seattle Times

Watch carefully as Alexander copes with a pathology of modern — meaning, presidential — government unanticipated by John Adams: laws that subvert the rule of law.

From Washington Post