European Parliament

Why South China Sea is victim of disputes? The South China Sea is intentionally sited. It is sited in a way that it overlaps the main lanes of the sea between Asia, Middle East and the Europe. It becomes the main international way for sea trade and transportation, where most of the world’s largest traffic passes. As a global concern, the geopolitical and economic importance of the South China Sea lessens the secure navigation of tanks in water. The region plays a strategic maritime and military…

and Russia’s semi-presidential republic. In the British democracy, the legislature has a powerful role in the government, including checks on the executive in contrary in Russia the Duma is weak in comparison to the Russian president. The British parliament is the strongest branch of the British democracy by constitutional law, but in Russia, the president is in control. I argue that without a strong legislative branch checking the executive branch a democracy will break down leading to the…

On the back of each dollar bill in circulation, the Great Seal of the United States appears. Made up of two symbols; one, an eagle clutching a scroll, olive branch, and arrows; the other, an unfinished pyramid with an all seeing eye. In Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution, he rhetorically asks, “how many Americans today know what the pyramid and eye on the Great Seal mean” (99). While most Americans today may look past these icons, both sides of the Great Seal signify the distinctly American…

Introduction: Parallels in political structure between the Swedish parliamentary and Korean presidential systems of legislative governance provide a baseline where the study of cross structural stability can be analyzed while holding the independent variables such as unicameral legislative bodies, coalition based majorities in these bodies, and executive-legislative interactions constant. In this paper the Tsebelis ' sub veto player theory on “absorption rule” will be examined in the context…

In conclusion, to create the ideal government there must be big changes made to the courts, elections, political parties, and both the executive and legislative branches. It is clear that the current system of government in the US is not effective in all areas. However, it is equally clear that there is no prefect form of government anywhere else in the world. Combining various systems and modification of the current US government would help to create a more complete and better functioning…

Given recent geopolitical history and the circumstances under which you have decided to form your government, I believe that there are 4 plausible democratic systems of government that you can adopt: Westminster-style parliamentary governance with plurality elections, parliamentary governance with proportional representation, presidential government (i.e. separation of powers), or semi-presidentialism. These forms of governance, although quite different, all aim to provide stability and…

The United States Constitution is a document written to embody the fundamental laws of the United States. The first draft of the Constitution was called the Articles of Confederation, but the colonists quickly realized that the form of government the Articles of Confederation created was not going to work well. Consequently, the colonists held a Constitutional Convention, in 1787, the Constitutional Convention was held to amend the Articles of Confederation, they ended up drafting an entirely…

break down and examine the invitation of tendering of a BIM STRATEGY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT HOUSE (APH). This report intends to determine and review the project requirements, point out and portray key primary and secondary stakeholders, develop a stakeholder matrix and assess and select the most suitable project procurement framework for the project. The parliamentary house is the home of the parliament of Australia. It is additionally the work environment for countless amount of people,…

In a Parliamentary system the executive leader of Parliament, known as the Prime Minister, is elected by the legislative branch and the majority party controlling it. The people of the country vote for the legislative branch and then they are in charge of selecting a Prime Minister to lead them and the executive branch. Should Parliament decide that they no longer like a Prime Minister than they can simply cast a vote to replace him (Long, 1949…

The Canadian Senate, or Upper House of Parliament, is an independent part of the House of Commons. It’s main role is to provide a “sober second thought” before important decisions are made. However, the existence of the Senate is now threatened, and whether or not the Senate is worth keeping becomes a debatable question. The debate on Senates is divided into three parts: abolish the Senate, reform the Senate, and keep the Senate as is. In this article, the three main opinions will be discussed.…