In what type of representative government does the legislature elect one of its own members to be the executive office holder?
A)Parliamentary system
B)Diarchy
C)Unitary system
D)Single-party state

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In parliamentary systems the legislature (parliament) is directly elected by the people, then the legislature, in turn, elects one of its own members to be the executive office holder (prime minister or president). The United Kingdom is an example of a state that operates according to this system. A diarchy is a rare system in which two heads of state have power. For example, the small country Andorra is a parliamentary democracy that still has a co-principality at the head of its government (shared by the President of France and the bishop of Seud'Urgell, Spain). Andorra is therefore both a parliamentary democracy and a diarchy. When William III and Mary II jointly ruled England, Scotland, and Ireland at the end of the 17th century, England was both a monarchy and a diarchy. A unitary system of government is one in which all of the power is concentrated at the national level, which could be true of a parliamentary system (in theory), but is not the best answer to the question. A single-party state is a fascist totalitarian regime in which the political leader has unlimited executive and legislative power and concentrates all of it in his office, eventually eliminating his political competition through intimidation and censorship.

In What Type of Representative Government Does the Legislature Elect