Secondly, our flag still displays the Union Jack on the canton, which is the position of honour. This shows that the British Empire controls Australia, which is not true. Australia is not a colony anymore, but an independent country. Foreign citizens do not recognise our flag, but instead they question why we belong to Britain. We are part of the world’s mature nations, not an infant still needing a mother’s protection.
Parliament in Britain is generally regarded as making laws that apply to the entire population but there is no universal agreement that it should have unlimited power to make laws of whatever kind. In many constitutions, legal limits on parliament to make laws are set out in their written constitutions but as Britain does not have such a written constitution, does it mean that there are no legal limits on parliament? The traditional doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty was first defined by Dicey in the 19th century in his book “The Law of the Constitution”. According to Dicey’s theory, parliamentary sovereignty means, “the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and further, that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a ride to override or set asides the legislation of parliament.” This idea of parliament being sovereign was formed at time where England was not a democratic country and it could be argued that this theory is dated and can no longer be regarded as an immutable part of UK Constitutional law. If Dicey’s theory is placed in historical context, it was produced in a very different political environment to today.
If an individual does not vote, then that individual cannot argue or comment on the outcome of what our politicians do. Even though voting just seems to take up a brief moment of time, it is the most effective way to voice our opinion and choice for all decisions made by our government. America needs to change if America aspires to become a better country. One of the most important rights of an American Citizen is the right to vote. One thing I like about America is that America is a place where one can debate and discuss issues.
Of course changing and reforming the senate would not be an easy process it is a process that needs to happen for the betterment of the senate and the government of Canada. Canada’s government is a democracy and has always been a democracy. However in the government one important aspect of it is not democratic, the senators are appointed by the current in power Prime Minister. These senators that are appointed by the Prime Minister in power will always back the Prime Minister on every bill because he will only appoint senators from his own party. Every bill issued by the Prime Minister or party in charge will undoubtedly be passed by all of the senators appointed by him.
The important things today are which party has at the moment the right promises for the single voter and which party is better in delivering policy goals. To conclude I would say that neither Partisan Alignment nor party allegiance related to class is what convinces the electorate of the presence. For sure both of these factors are still there in the voting behavior of the United Kingdom but very rare. The modern, educated and open-minded voters do not want to be related to a party because of their social class, they want to decide completely uninfluenced by social factors which party they vote
8/2/11 I think we need a bicameral legislature today because we wouldn’t want just one branch to make our law and be able to do want they want. We need to have that second opinion so we have an equal discussion on all matters in the United States. If we had only one branch they could make all kinds of laws and we would have to abide buy them even though they may not be fair to everyone. We need to keep it the way it is and elected new bleed into the system. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES A bicameral is two chambers; the Senate and the House of Representatives.
True Blue? On Being Australian "Australia needs sudden shocks of reorientation within its society that will divorce it from the largely irrelevant problems of the British, make it possible to speed necessary changes and to develop some new sense of identity, some public feeling of being a people who can be described - even if incorrectly - as such-and-such a kind of nation, and act at times as if it were so. Australians are anonymous, featureless, nothing-men. This modest anonymity reveals itself in the argument that Australia does not run to the kind of person we could turn into a president. "Donald Horne - 1964 Australia is a country filled with so much multiculturalism that it is often hard to distinguish what qualities and values
The traditional Aboriginal law never changes; it is a body of rules which does not differentiate between the spiritual and physical worlds. The Aboriginal law was established by The Aboriginal ancestors ‘ancestor beings’. It may vary in content from one language group to another across the continent; however, there are general similarities across all language groups (chapter 2). Established laws across the globe which are currently practiced in different countries and cultures date back to thousands of years and have originated as a result of customs agreements, events and authorities. In Australia, there are approximately 600 Aboriginal nations/clan groups across the continent which are governed and bound by The Customary Aboriginal law.
Discuss two remedies for low voter turnout. What are the pros and cons of each? Our system of government, today, requires voters to turnout, because in theory any one vote could decide the outcome of the election. Many ideas have been proposed to the government to improve voter turnout, but the two that are the most likely to work out in my opinion is finning citizens who do not vote and to try to raise political awareness. Australia fines its citizens for not voting and we could do the same in the U.S.
‘If it isn’t broken don’t fix it.’ Discuss with reference to the electoral systems used for national elections in the UK and USA. The first past the post systems used in both the USA and the UK unquestionably have the potential to produce election results that are not representative of the break down of total votes in an election, providing results that don’t reflect voter wishes. One may argue that the electoral systems used in both the USA and UK marginalize minorities, causes wasted, insignificant votes and promote voter apathy. However despite the numerous criticisms of first past the post it has continued to be the system in place to decide the President in the USA and dictate which party forms government, and thus which party leader becomes Prime Minister in the UK, suggesting the system has its advantages. Proponents of the UK and US voting methods also often cite the lack of a credible alternative as a reason for the retention of the current systems.