American Legal Terms

Do your city councils have representatives of the different parties, even local parties?
Do they exist?(local parties at neighbourhoods)

Our city council in my town is small but has a variety of political parties representatives *councellors? mostly dominated by Peronistas usually.
It is usual to see fights (ACTUAL fights with sticks, guns et al) at the door of the Council, stones fly etc.. is interesting all the negotiates done in the coffee shop at its corner.. I can not find out how many members it has; the info is not online.

The set-up in the US makes it pretty difficult for any new or small party (any party other than the Democrats or Republicans) to get off the ground.

For example: In the 1940s the New York City Council was elected by proportional representation. Then a couple of Communists were elected, and so the system was changed to the current district system to make sure than wouldn't happen again.

Hasn't E.Hoover forbid the Communist Party in USA?
What happened to the party of Ross Perrot and the Ecollogical party there was?
We have small parties which usually make alliances with the big ones ( Peronistas or Radicales) in order to get a seat in Congress or another Institution.

As far as I remember Deputies represent different parties and Senators represent States.
There is a number of Sen. per state(provincias) and there are different Deputies per political party and they enter in proportional amount to the votes received.
It is in our Constitution.. should re read it since we are about to have elections soon, June 28th or around that date.
The government moved the elections forward knowing they would not be able to cope with the forthcoming crisis if they respect the usual date established for elections, October 30th.

Edited by: itsasmallfuturepresident'sworld1

Australia even had a referendum on whether ot ban the Communist Party or not, in around 1951. The majority in that referendum voted to keep it legal. Did the USA ever go so far, and would it have required a popular vote, or just an executive order by the President, or a majority vote (what kind?) by Congress and/or the Senate?

In California, by law, local offices are nonpartisan. That is, the people who run for office are not supported by any political party. A member of a city council could be a Democrat, a Republican, a member of some other party, or affiliated with no party at all, but it cannot be officially mentioned as part of the campaign. We don't have parties at the neighborhood level.

The level of corruption in all organisations here is so huge that parties try to intervene everywhere, paying for votes, and or giving freebies to voters in order to get their votes.
It is either truth or an urban legend that during an election Peron used to give the right shoe to voters who would vote for him and he would give the other one once he was elected. ( I am not sure if it was Peron or someone else, definitely from his party)
If any argentino is reading this, will call me a "Gorila" immediately..

Parties are active at the state level and in msot cities. (However, in some cities the Democratic party is dominant - 49 of the 50 members of the Chicago City Council are Democrats) Some smaller cities are officially non-partisan.

The U.S. has never banned the Communist party, although there was a time when its members were investigated and harassed. I don't think it would be possible to do so without changing the Constitution,

what does non partisan mean? that they do not represent a political party?
if so.. what do they represent and what are they elected for?
(wish I could ask it in more proper English)

It's like Nutrax explained in post 14. People running for office cannot make known which party they represent, or receive support from political parties.