Government

Sierra Leone has a constitutional republic which is a type of government where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the governments power over citizens. Just like the US's government the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated in separate branches, and the will of the majority of the population is tempered by protections for individual rights so that no individual group has absolute power. Also just like the US Sierra Leone's officials are chosen by election rather than by inheriting their position.

I think that Sierra Leone's government is much like the United States, so I do no think that my life would be affected much by it.

This is a picture of Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma. []