Question

Which of the following countries has a confederation system of governance? Scotland France United States Mexico Canada

Answer 1

Government systems are mainly divided into , federal system of governance, confederate system of governance and unitary system. Federal system of governance is where the power is shared by a powerful central government and states or provinces that are given considerable self rule normally by their own legislature. Examples are the US,Australia and Germany. A confederate system involves a weak or loose organization states that agree to follow a powerful central government an example is what is formerly known as soviet union. In this case the correct answer is Canada

Answer 2

In this choices the answer is Canada. This is due to the use of the word confederate in Canada, which shares meaning with the British English. In Canada joining as a a federating state is called Confederation. In this sense, it could be said that it is just to the semantics.