What are the two most important things to remember about our government and how can I apply that knowledge in the future?Be specific.

Two important things to remember about our government: I
don't know that there are two most important things to remember about our government. 
Maybe there are and I just don't know about them.

Very
important to me is the fact that the right to vote is not restricted to people whose
life-experience enables them to understand how government impacts their lives (which is
too bad). Rather, nearly everyone 18 years old or older can vote.  Most people have not
the foggiest idea of how government affects their lives; most people lay far more
importance on the Super Bowl than on the national election.  Therefore, most people can
be manipulated fairly easily as regards how they vote in national elections.  They vote
according to a few seconds of information that they get via their television sets.  To
get on TV costs lots of money.  Lots of money flows to approved candidates from big
business.  Therefore, elections are between two candidates that are preapproved by big
business.  Those not preapproved by big business do not get enough money to get on TV,
therefore few voters ever hear of them, and never hear of them as often as they hear of
the two preapproved candidates.

Another thing that I think
is important is that the president is not elected by a simple national majority, but by
electoral votes apportioned amongst all the states (which is a good thing).  If election
of president were by a simple national majority, there would be enough people in just a
few of the most urbanized states, who thought alike, to elect the president by
themselves.  Therefore the president would not give any concern to the most of the
states which did not figure in the outcome of the election.  Those states would become
mere imperial territories of the few states that elected the
president.