House of Lords

in each of the Houses of Parliament, it provides several opportunities for debate, scrutiny and amendment, ensuring that any mistakes or poor drafting can be corrected. Another advantage is that government has considerable control over parliamentary law-making. It controls parliamentary timetable for debates and is likely to win at each stage of the process unless a number of its own MPs vote against it. This is democratic because of the government. Furthermore, the House of Lords acts as a…

way in which legislation is voted on in the Senate respectively); as well, does Parliament have the ability to amend the British North America Act 1867 (hereinafter referred to as the BNA Act) in order to get rid of any mention of a Senate or Upper House? 2) Does Parliament have the legislative authority to enact legislation that would change either some or all of the…

the Westminster system is, represents every citizen’s voice, but that is not necessarily the case. Many of the countries that impose this system of government have attempted to amend the system; such is the case with the United Kingdom and their House of Lords, as well as the elected Senate in Australia. This is not the case with one of the empire’s former colonies in particular. From its outset, there…

This Home Rule bill differed from its two predecessors in the fact that it affected the financial state of Ireland (Porritt, 316). Although introduced in 1912, the bill passed the House of Commons but was not passed in the House of Lords. The Third This bill was never really passed due to the impending First World War. In 1920, a Fourth Home Rule Act was passed which partitioned Ireland into two sections; two of which we now have in the modern day world. These…

effectiveness of legislation is the process of a bill becoming a law after undergoing many stages between the House of Commons and the House of Lords.…

The House of Commons is made by Members of State (MPs). The public elects the members every five years. The House of Commons debates important issues, makes and reviews laws, represents the public and holds the Government to account. Inside the House of Commons, there are two sides: on one side, there is The Government, which runs the country, and the other side is called The Opposition who keeps an eye on what the Government is doing. The chamber has 437 seats for over 650 members. The Commons…

lobbies to be created around the Palace, and so the current method of having clerks and tellers would need to be revised. There would also be a delay in returning the result to the chamber. The result needs to be given to the Speaker to announce to the House if multiple votes are taking place in multiple places these results will need to be collated before the result can be presented, potentially slowing the process down. It is unlikely Members will be able to change the voting procedure to get…

to no separation of powers, this is because there is a majority in the house of commons of the winning party members who can get their party whips to convince others to vote in a certain way in their favour. In 2001 when the Labour party had a majority in parliament of 165 seats, bills were passed more efficiently as almost the entire party voted for each legislation passed by the Labour party making the country in what Lord Hailsham would call an elective dictatorship. Another example is…

While democracy is present in much of the modern world, it is difficult to define exactly what democracy is due to the varying ways of governing present in the world. In this paper, I will compare England and Germany according to Lijphart’s models of majoritarian and consensus democracies. In Lijphart’s model, there are two main ideas in which these two systems differ: how easy it is for a single party to take control of the government and how much a party can change policy once they have…

for only there Lord and savior. You could say that that is their motivation for everything plus it’s also what motivated Cromwell’s political and military actions. My reason for stating that is because in his reports he says that “Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to him alone belongs the glory.” Another piece of evidence to support Cromwell’s motivation to his political and military actions is clearly dated that after the execution of Charles the first the House of Lords was…