Legislative Assembly

Greece has an executive, legislative and judicial branch. The executive branch consists of the cabinet, which includes twenty-two ministries led by the prime minister. Ministers, who are not members of the Assembly (legislative branch), are chosen by the prime minister and their names are submitted to the president for formal appointment. Greece elects a legislature by all citizens (over the age of 18). The Greek Parliament has 300 members. The prescribed subjects of the legislative branch…

The French Revolution sought to end the reign of the Estates. The Estates were a set of three classes. Within the first estate was the high clergy, which was equivalent to 1% of the population. The Second Estate held the Nobles, 2% of the population. The Third estate was composed of everyone else, including merchants and farmers, so close to 97% of the population. This system only favored the First and Second Estate. When it came to voting, each Estate only had one vote, and the First and Second…

important step in the origins of democracy. Some of his reforms created problems for other people, who wanted to become citizens. In 500BC, Athens looked like a modern democracy. The main lawmaking body was known as the assembly, and all free male citizens could be in the assembly. The assembly met about forty times a year to discuss and vote on the issues. The council of 500, which was made of volunteers from all ten districts, helped sort out the assembly's business. An even smaller council, a…

constitutional accepted guidelines approved by the Legislative to permit the Executive to exercise some form of powers in regards to the policy process. Modern democratic states now run under a parliamentary or presidential system in which governing vary in the division of power and in the way policies are process and implemented. Although traditional long standing parliamentary systems like Great Britain have proven to have an exceptional executive-legislative relation one in which is for the…

or upon one assembly of men...” - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651. I strongly disagree with what Hobbes has to say. He believes the people are all suborn and they all need to be controlled by an outside force, but I don’t believe that’s the case. When the people are controlled by one common source it can corrupt and change their lifestyle as they know it.…

Before we can discuss the concepts between the three spheres namely, politics, government and governance, it is very important to discuss the concept of state because without a state, none of the three spheres mentioned above would exists because they all function within a state. A state, according to Cloete (1993:147), is an independent territory with clearly established boundaries that are recognized by the people of that territory, and the people and governments of other recognized states. A…

ordinances represented an exercise of police power rather than local self-government. The Court found that R.C. 1509.02 is a general law because it satisfies the four definitive conditions of a general law it is part of a statewide and comprehensive legislative enactment, it applies to all parts of the state alike and operates uniformly, it sets forth police, sanitary, or similar regulations, and it prescribes a rule of conduct upon citizens. The City attempted to argue that R.C. 1509.02 failed…

When America was created it made many promises. The most important promise it made was the promise of democratic governance. A nation where the people has a voice and chooses who will govern them. A nation without a king or queen, with multiple parts making a government. Some people think the government has done a great job and has succeed in fulfilling this promise. However, others think the government has done a halfway job and has failed in multiple ways in creating a democratic government.…

On July 20, 2015 the Cuba and United States diplomatic relations had been restored that were severed during the Cold War in 1961 (Britannica, 2015). However, the United States embargo still exists which makes it illegal for American corporations to do business with Cuba. The U.S trade embargo cannot be lifted without congressional appeal making it hard to remove (Britannica, 2015). The relationship between the United States and Cuba has remained frozen beyond the end of the Cold War, which makes…

be a prison champlain as well. His goals were that he wanted to help workers as much as he could so he decided that he wanted to make a more personal approach in helping. According to William Atkins he, “began organizing workers' clubs, called the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers of the City of St. Petersburg”(Atkins).9 He hoped the petition he made, would help the people, he hoped it would help if it was more personal so he made a petition, getting hundreds of people to sign it with problems…