Legislature

British parliament has a two house system. This bicameral structure includes a house of lords and a house of commons. The house of lords is made out of people who inherited the position or were elected by the monarch and prime minister, while the House of Commons consists of members elected by the people. The house of lords has very small influence in the British government. The most useful action they can perform is to delay a law brought up by the house commons. It is delayed for up to a year,…

of the Charter. Though the Supreme Court acts as a system of checks and balances on the executive power of Canada, at what point does the system of the court give the judiciary too great a level of power? When acknowledging the constitutions and legislature in which the Supreme Court justices gain and hold their power, s. 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the lack of equal representation in the court, it is indisputable that the highest court in Canada is overly powerful. It…

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution Cristina Sanchez Devry University To have an effective system to govern the entire nation, the United States went through several debates. On November 15, 1777, the Congress of the United States adopted the Articles of Confederations. The document was the first law that governed the United States. Each state remained sovereign and independent under the articles of confederation. The article provided several options and process of…

There will continue to be fourteen members of the commission. They still did not stop there. California has, also, changed their primary elections to break the parties control in two ways. The state had an independent commission (instead of state legislature) to draw congressional and state legislative districts. This redistricting increased the number of competitive seats between the two…

people eligible. The constitution also made it so the Pennsylvania legislature was only one body, which is know as a unicameral government. The biggest thing that the constitution did was remove the position of governor entirely because people thought of governors as small-scale kings. These changes left the Pennsylvania government to be run by the people in only one body because they believed that having a higher body of legislature was like having a higher class of wealthy aristocrats, which…

Otto Von Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815. He was appointed prime minister of Prussia as he was a supporter of King William I. Since the German Confederation was made out of thirty eight states, there was no unity. In 1848, people of the German Confederation wanted a unified Germany, and so the Frankfurt Assembly attempted to create a constitution for a unified Germany;although it was unsuccessful. Due to this, Bismarck became well known for his part in the unification of Germany. He was…

In the late 1800s many large cities seemed to use political machines. Elected officials would cooperate with private businesses to get things done. At the top of these systems were political bosses, who may not have held office, they often knew who to talk to to get things done. The easiest way to get things done was through corruption. While driven by self-interest and the hunger for power, there was some positive influence to these political machines. The tammany hall machine came to power by…

gender they identify with, and just try to pass. Someone would not go through all of that just to “use the law to gain access to women.” According to Refinery29 “There are currently 15 state bathroom bills pending in legislature, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming all introduced bathroom bills in the…

defendant rights. This article questions the 8th amendment as it states, “The best answer for the future is for state legislatures to keep moving away from the disproportionately harsh sentencing laws that brought us to this point in the first place” (New York Times A22) this quote from the article demonstrates how the writers feel about the 8th amendment and more specifically how the legislature has not adhered to the 8th amendment. The 8th amendment states: “…nor cruel and unusual punishment…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In his testimony to the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Allen Loughry said the legislature can act to cut the branch's upcoming budget and improve relationships between courts and other groups. The judicial branch's requested amount for the upcoming fiscal year is more than $141 million, which Loughry said was more than one percent of the entire state budget. Loughry said last year, the branch initially requested more than…