Otherwise, the ruling party - with its access to the instruments of government, such as the civil service - would have an unfair advantage. A sum of £2 million is split and then is given by the government to parties which have either 150,000 votes in a general election or have two or more sitting MP’s that have taken the oath of allegiance. All parties are required to disclose their finances to the Electoral Management Body. Which is responsible for administering elections. Under rules drawn up by the current government, donations worth £5,000 or more to national parties have to be declared.
Under the Criminal Justice ACT 2003, those who suffer from a mental illness are ineligible for jury service. Those who are disqualified are for example, offenders on bail or anyone who has served a prison sentence within the past ten years. Jury service is compulsory however; there are circumstances where an individual cannot serve on Jury at the time they are summoned. For example, being too ill to attend court, pregnant women, teachers or students during examinations and members of the armed forces. In these circumstances, they must notify the court and apply for a discretionary excusal.
Pressure groups differ from political parties in the fact that a pressure group can’t run in an election in an attempt to gain power. They can be classed as either insider or outsider depending if the government wishes to acknowledge their aim and listen to what they have to say. Also some pressure groups could be around for a short time as if they are caused by a single issue when it has been resolved they either dissolve it or keep a much smaller profile. Due to much larger memberships nationwide, with some pressure groups having in excess of a million members compared to parties these days which at most only have around 200,000 members this from the start means that due to severe lack of numbers in comparison to some pressure groups means that they are at an immediate disadvantage. As a result of this the voice of a pressure group can be very loud as even if half of its members turn out to a protest or march they would have more than the total of political parties.
Why sixteen year olds should not be allowed to obtain a voters permit and vote because Sixteen year olds have yet to live life, so they shouldn't be awarded adult privileges at such a young age. Sixteen year olds are yet to have adult problems like bills and most have yet to work a day in their life. Sixteen year olds who haven't worked paid bills nor have major responsibilities don't know the meaning of voting, especially when it comes down to our freedom. There are certain things in life in which you earn to do and voting is one, you earn the privilege to vote it’s not something you earn just because you have taken a simple civics course. Through earning
Why has representative democracy in the form of general elections in the UK been criticised? Representative democracy in general elections has received a lot of criticism and been open to questioning on whether it is truly representative of the votes given and whether it is actually democratic in to whom the power is given. The transfers of sovereignty in a general election is democratic in the way it gives the people of the UK a chance to exercise their voting power and pass this power onto a politician of the majority’s choice. However this ‘transfer of power’ has been rightly criticised, the fact that the British people only have one chance every 5 years to exercise this power unless the prime minister calls another election, otherwise during the five year period, the people cannot really change what the government is doing even if they strongly disagree. Also, there is a problem in how the ratio of votes to seats is distributed.
After doing some research, I now know the salary every first year congressperson receives. In order to qualify for retirement, each must serve a minimum of five years. The personal finance disclosure released by members of congress will open your eyes to the estimated net worth of our elected officials. Congress should not receive a salary for the work they are doing. Benjamin Franklin once suggested this same concept.
From my evaluation of the information provided by Franklin Printers of Fort Lauderdale, FL their suggestion to have the sum of the simple cash flow from the investment be positive after a maximum of 5 years is a very extreme bid for Abcor to meet. In order for Abcor to meet their requirement Abcor will have to discount their machine from $12,000 to $6,000, which is a 50% discount. This will cause Abcor to only make $3,734 DCF (Figure 3.1) after 5 years, which isn’t a great profit for a company over 5 years. Looking at the break-even analysis graph(Figure 3.2) it seems this could be a solution, but the confirmation of this being a bad bid can be found in the Cash Flow vs Machine Cost graph (Figure 3.3), where we can see that the buyers DCF is constantly in the negative. This shows us that discounting the machine will not bring positive cash flows to the buying company.
To be eligible you must be 18 to 70. You need to be registered on the electoral register and selected randomly. The juror mustn’t have any mental illness and you must be a UK resident for 5 years. Juror could be deferred or excused altogether from jury service. Serving in the armed forces full-time, someone who has experienced a similar crime against them, being a Member of Parliament and being over 65.
A majority of this nation does not support mandatory voting in this country. Congress should not pass this bill because America simply does not want to be forced to vote. Mandatory voting will cause ignorant voting. The government is silly to think that mandatory voting will cause the people to increase their attention to politics. Not every citizen will have a political interest for each election or knowledge of the ongoing election.
The Lords, on the other hand, can only delay legislation it dislikes for a year and debate on policies just like the commons. It consists of around 500 Lords (or life peers) who are unelected, they are either church associated, Life Peers chosen by the government, Law Lords or hereditary peers who have inherited their right to sit in the House (Dukes, viscounts, barons). Parliament has many functions which enable it to carry out its role within modern Britain. One of these is legislation; it makes laws and can also repeal them as it pleases. It is a key role of the commons to make legislation legitimate.