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The United States can be described as both indirectly democratic and federal. A federal system of government is a system of government that has power shared and distributed between multiple levels of authority within a geographic area. For example in the United States there is the Federal Government as well as State Governments, State Governments are federal units and show that the devolving of certain powers to states exemplifies a federal system of governance.