Canada is a constitutional Monarchy, which is led by the British head of state Queen Elizabeth ll. She is on our currency and stamps, links us to the past, connects us to the Commonwealth, and has showed her respect for the choices that we make in shaping our future. However, many people consider her of being a figurehead leader only, and are losing interest in the Royal family. A public poll, “conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Global News, has revealed that 53 per cent Canadians think it may soon be time to abolish the monarch as our head of state.”1 However keeping the constitutional monarchy gives us an excellent system for many practical reasons. The constitutional monarchy is here to help Canada and other countries under the Commonwealth…
Constitutional Monarchy is the only way to govern a country? A constitutional monarchy is when both the Government’s and the Crown’s powers are restricted by the overriding statute referred to as the constitution. Australia serves as the best example of a constitutional monarchy, other examples include New Zealand, Canada and Denmark. The United Kingdom is slightly different with no single constitutional document but a prominent Monarchy. The USA however, consists of a constitution without a…
Australia is a constitution monarchy which means Australia is its own constitution but we are still part of the English monarchy. Australia is also a representative democracy and this means that unlike a dictatorship we have a fair vote to see who will be the leader of the country. We do this through a system call preferential voting. In Australia you must complete a compulsory preferential vote. The Australian public is forced to vote for the federal election every three years. We vote every…
Constitutional monarchy consists of having a system of government where a monarch still has a formal title in a state/nation without having any real power; while the head of state of a nation holds the political power over a country (Monarchy Constitutional, 2008). Monarchs essentially act as a figurehead towards a nation, while the leaders of the state actually govern the country. An example of a country that follows this is Canada. Although Canada holds the Queen of England with some regard,…
During the seventeenth century, conflict arose over the way people should be governed. In this time there were two main forms of government, absolutist and constitutional monarchies. In an absolutist monarchy, such as those in France, Spain, Central Europe, and Russia, the monarchs exerted dominance over the people by collecting all power for themselves. In a constitutional monarchy, such as those in England and the Dutch Republic, the rulers did not have complete power, they abided by the laws…
Australia is a constitutional monarchy. The queen Elizabeth II is the head of state representative by the govern general (GG). This summative allows me to research wether Australia should become a republic nation rather than being ruled by Britain monarchy. First of all what is the actual meaning of a republic, according to the oxford dictionaries a republic means “a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated…
democratic institutions the two countries are virtually the same? A few possibilities come to mind, however, one stands among the rest, and that is the religious make-up of the two countries. Luxembourg’s historically Catholic tradition, and Sweden’s Lutheran following attempt to explain the significant disparity the Christian Democratic Party faces in each of the respective countries. Case Selection Sweden and Luxembourg share very similar characteristics across their governments. With…
Greece possesses all the political institutions of modern democratic states. However, these institutions have not operated in the fashion of their Western European counterparts like Denmark. One reason for this political instability is the sudden shifts of power and changes in the form of government that has taken place in Greece. The country has gone through many transformations form a republic to a monarchy, from a monarchy to a republic, and back again to a republic. Furthermore, the Greek…
Activity 2: 1. Name 2 political features of Dutch culture: Constitutional Monarchy Since 1815 The Netherlands has been a constitutional monarchy. Historically for centuries before, it had been the proud republic, a union of provinces. Since 1848, the Netherlands is also a parliamentary democracy. Dutch monarch has no real political power, but serves as representative head of state and a symbolic person uniting the divided parliamentary politics. The parliament The parliament consists of two…
Background: British monarchy was established after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and England is the first country which establish constitutional monarchy. Now, Queen Elizabeth II. is the head of State and as the monarch she is also the head of the church of England, commander in Chief, head of the commonwealth and head of executive, legislature and judiciary. Although she has many titles, she has no real political power, with “domestic and foreign policy are left to Parliament and, more…