A complicated democratic system…..

It was like narrating a story. The presentation by Dr. Lennal Joseph Henderson, who is a professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Baltimore, on January 23rd was amazing.
The topic was really interesting and very necessary to help understand how the administrative system works in the United States.
The presentation was about the US System of Federalism.
I have to be frank that at the beginning of the almost two-hour presentation, where I and my colleagues had the chances for several questions, I felt that the meeting was long for the topic. However, I have to say I was mistaken.

Out of this meeting, I learnt a lot about the federal system in the US and as we are moving on in our programme on the 2008 presidential primaries I now more appreciate every single information I learn as it is crucial to know how the federal system works to better understand the laws and regulations governing and affecting the primaries in the 50 states of the US.
I have to say it took me some time to understand how this decentralized system works, and still I do not think am good at knowing all its details.
But I did benefit from this presentation tremendously and I guess if the time was even longer that would have been better.


Mohammad Ghazal
Reporter with The Jordan Times.