Six state parliaments. Two territory parliaments. The members of parliament are elected by the people and must therefore represent the needs of the people if they wish to keep their seat in parliament. The elected members of parliament are also responsible to the parliament and the people for their actions. The Australian parliamentary system is based of the British Westminster system, which was adopted in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), known as the Commonwealth Constitution.
This principle is a result of the election of the Members of Parliament (MPs), by the electorate which gives them authority to represent and pass legislation on their behalf. Parliament being able to make laws on any matter can be traced back to the Bill of Rights 1689 where it was said that the monarch alone could not pass or repeal laws without Parliament's consent. Parliament is also free to modify its own makeup and authority. This is confirmed in the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 which removed the veto powers of the House of Lords and the Life Peerages Act 1958 which apart from giving the Prime Minister flexibility to modify the composition of the House of Lords introduced female peers into the hereditary and male dominated second chamber. Therefore, parliament is still sovereign because it can make or unmake any law it wishes.
At a glance it is obvious that a major part of UK democracy is parliamentary democracy as this is our chosen form of government, having the houses of parliament which consist of the house of commons and the house of lords. In the UK we have the government which is drawn from parliament as well as the monarchy who are now concerned primarily with ceremonial roles within governing the country. However it is key to note that although the monarchy does have a part in the governing of the UK it is not elected and so this damages the argument of the UK being fully democratic. However the majority of parliament is elected at least. In the UK parliament all members of the house of commons are elected in free and fair elections by their local
Federalist was led by Alexander Hamilton, which believed that government should have more power. On the other hand, the anti-Federalist, also known as Jeffersonian insisted on a strict construction of the provisions of the Constitution. Later on, the Federalist have became the Republican Party, and the anti-Federalist represent the Democracy. However, at first, John Adams have defeated Jefferson by just three votes in the electoral college, but later year, Jefferson defeated the incumbent, and won control of both houses of Congress. The Federalist never returned to power.
This report will explain one selection process which describes each stage of the process. It will identify to which level of government it relates and explanation will be detailed. Also report will explain detailed comparison of points that compares the election process for UK general election and European election. General Elections General election in the UK is parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. Queen or King is a head of state, but they don’t have much power and prime minister is head of government.
He was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment. He was released that day as he had spent longer on remand than the length of the sentence. In november 2008 the bbc reported that the trial heard evidence that shannon matthew was drugged to subdue her during the kidnap. News papers reported that the jury was told that shannon was drugged and tied up to a roof beam whilst her mother hatched the plan to make 50,000 from her faked kidnap. On the 16th of june 2010 the kirklees safe gaurding children report found thatsocial services could not have anticipated the abductionof shannon
In the tampering of an investigation of bankruptcy or fraud, an individual can be sent to prison for up to 20 years. Failure to comply with the SEC’s rules on record keeping could carry a sentence of 10 years (Carmichael et al., 2007, p.19). With the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, overall, investor confidence with auditors in the U.S. has been
Cameron experienced his first defeat over the EU Budget last week, with more than 50 Tory MPs rebelling. There was majority of 13, in favour of a rebel Tory call led by Mark Reckless for a real terms cut in the European Union's budget. This proves that some backbenchers are brave enough to take action and not be unquestionably loyal to the government. The number of U-turns that the current government has done indicates that the threat of a backbench rebellion is sometimes enough to persuade them to drop a policy. In 2010 backbenchers were threatening to rebel over tuition fees.
Labour lost power in 1924 because of events it could not control rather than its record in Government. Ninety years ago today, the British political landscape was shattered by the election of the first Labour government, the Annual Register called it ‘A revolution in British politics as profound as that associated with the Reform Act of 1832’. After an inconclusive election on 6 December 1923 resulting in a hung parliament resulted in Ramsay MacDonald taking office as both Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary leading a minority government on 22 January 1924. However labour’s time in the lime light was cut short; on the 8th of October that same year the Macdonald administration was voted out of parliament. The nature of the labour’s downfall is fickle as it is arguable whether or not labour’s downfall is owed to
This could have a negative impact on the tourism industry. President Obama and Democratic leaders have made it clear they are willing to accept even deeper social spending cuts in order to reach an agreement with congressional Republicans to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government .Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden held a White House meeting with House Speaker John Boehner in an effort to reach a deal with the Republican congressional leader to fund the government for the last six months of fiscal year 2011. As of this writing, no deal had been reached.At a White House meeting Boehner had reneged on a previous agreement to cut $33 billion and raised the Republicans’ demand to at least $40 billion in spending cuts, while adding a series of right-wing social policies to the budget bill, including restrictions on abortion and environmental regulation.In remarks during a public appearance in Pennsylvania prior to his meeting with the Republican House leader, Obama said, “After weeks of negotiations, we’ve now agreed to cut as much spending as the Republicans in Congress originally asked for. So we’ve agreed to a compromise, but somehow we still don’t have a deal, because some folks are trying to inject politics in what should be a simple debate about how to pay