<P> There are many forms of government . One form is a strong central government as in France and China . Another form is local government, such as the ancient divisions in England that are comparatively weaker but less bureaucratic . These two forms helped to shape the practice of federal government, first in Switzerland, then in the United States in 1776, in Canada in 1867 and in Germany in 1871 and in 1901, Australia . Federal states introduced the new principle of agreement or contract . Compared to a federation, a confederation has a more dispersed system of judicial power . In the American Civil War, the contention of the Confederate States that a State could secede from the Union was untenable because of the power enjoyed by the Federal government in the executive, legislative and judiciary branches . </P> <P> According to professor A.V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities; b) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches . </P> <P> Global politics include different practices of political globalization in relation to questions of social power: from global patterns of governance to issues of globalizing conflict . The 20th century witnessed the outcome of two world wars and not only the rise and fall of the Third Reich but also the rise and relative fall of communism . The development of the atomic bomb gave the United States a more rapid end to its conflict in Japan in World War II . Later, the hydrogen bomb became the ultimate weapon of mass destruction . </P> <P> Global politics also concerns the rise of global and international organizations . The United Nations has served as a forum for peace in a world threatened by nuclear war, "The invention of nuclear and space weapons has made war unacceptable as an instrument for achieving political ends ." Although an all - out final nuclear holocaust is radically undesirable for man, "nuclear blackmail" comes into question not only on the issue of world peace but also on the issue of national sovereignty . On a Sunday in 1962, the world stood still at the brink of nuclear war during the October Cuban Missile Crisis from the implementation of U.S. vs Soviet Union nuclear blackmail policy . </P>

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