Member of Parliament

communities to parliaments and governments, and has become increasingly recognised all around the world over the past few years. Since 2001, many countries have passed bills to legalise same sex unions and provide them with equal rights, and then years later have fully legalised gay marriage, the first being The Netherlands (2001), however Australia is not one of those countries. Gay marriage and obtaining equal rights for same-sex couples has been drifting around the Australian parliament for…

Only boys are taken to shoot wildlife on the farm. 3.a.i. Political A one-third quota introduced by the ANC during the 1994 elections, resulted in 30% of all parliament members and provincial legislatures being women. All other political parties have no set quotas for women, and all have less than 25% of women in legislatures and parliament. There is no improvement in local government statistics as women are also under-represented, a maximum of 28% of women are counsellors and women in…

Historically, parliament should make the law and judges simply apply the law, this fits in with the separation of powers theory. Blackstone 's dictation theory also states this. Judges create law by precedent and statutory interpretation. Under the Literal Rule judges have very little scope for judicial creativity as they are limited to giving words in the Act of Parliament their plain, ordinary, grammatical meaning from a standard English dictionary, this means judges are following the exact…

and it duty to our government. The branch is in charge of creating laws, approving treaties, sending, bills, regulating trades and declaring wars. ("The Legislative Branch.") When establishing the legislative branch there was a conflict of how the members would be determine. Larger states wanted representation to be based on population, while smaller states wanted everyone to have one vote no what matter the population was. An agreement called the Great Compromise solved their problem. The…

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unanimously “Declared an utter detestation of the extraordinary and violent proceedings of a number of persons unknown, against some of the inhabitants of the town”. They also created a proclamation that would reward anyone who gave information about the members of the mob as warrants were being written and signed – although, these actions did little good since it was suspected that some participants in the mob were a part of the Council, and any attempts to arrest individuals were halted under…

Introduction The voting system is the core of democracy. It is a tool for citizens to create a democratic government. It is also a method to choose political representatives. When each citizen's vote has the same value, Parliament can reflect the political will of the people. If the voting system ignored or distorted the voters, the government would not be accountable and democracy would be damaged. The current Canada electoral system is based the plurality system. In any one constituency, the…

properly and efficiently. The PM delegates which department each Cabinet member (Minister) will be in charge of, such as transport, foreign affairs, international trade, etc. These Ministers work with the PM to develop laws and policies based on issues in their respective departments (339). Canadian Parliament consists of the Monarch (represented by the Governor General), House of Commons (of which the Canadian Ministry are all members) and Senate. These groups are responsible for the…

On May 10th, 1773, Great Britain's parliament passed the Tea Act. The main objective of the Tea Act was to save the East India Company from bankruptcy, by lowering the tax on their tea. Also to give a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. Since all legal tea entered the colonies through England, it allowed the East India Company to pay lower taxes in Britain. The East India Company was doing well and the British wanted to give it more business, but the tea act lowered the price way…

Cuthbert founded a monastery, which apparently existed until the Danish invasions of late ninth century. Crayke Castle, built c.1450 by Robert Neville, then Bishop of Durham, occupies the site of a former Norman motte-and-bailey fort. In 1647, Parliament ordered that the castle should be ‘rendered untenable and with no garrison maintained in it’. and in 1648 the manor of Crayke was sold to…