Question

Define a Unitary government.

Answer 1

1. In the words of Herman Finer, “Unitary Government (state) is one in which all the authority and powers are lodged in a single center whose will and authority are largely omnipotent over the whole area.”
2. Garner offers a comprehensive and clear definition of Unitary State, when he observes, “Where the whole power of government is conferred by the constitution upon a single central organ or organs, from which the local governments derive whatever authority or autonomy they possess and indeed their very existence, we have a system of Unitary Government.”