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Democratic Dictatorship? The Power of the Prime Minister in Canada Recently in Canada, it is being debated if the power that the Prime Minister holds has become stronger. Section 9 and 10 of the Constitution Act of 1867 declares the Queen and Governor as the ones who possess executive power, when today in practice, that power is found within the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The era of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister has been referred to as the period when the checks and balances began to…

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,…

The French government is semi-presidential government because De Gaulle wanted a stable two party system, while also diminishing the influence of parties. This causes the president to be very powerful. They appoint a prime ministers, presides the Council of Minister, has emergency powers, and can dissolve the National Assembly. Also before 2002 the president could be in office for seven years, not the government reduced it to five. This compares to the United States…

parliamentary and presidential systems have benefits and drawbacks, parliamentary systems are evidently more democratic because it gives majority of its power to the people by allowing them to call for a vote of no confidence and not setting maximum limits to prime minister term periods. This paper will compare and contrast the two democratic systems, discuss the benefits and critiques of each and finally examine why…

and actively controlled by the mafia. Towards the late 2000s, the Parliament and the prime minister were working to regulate all the troublesome areas. In 2007, the Italian Ministry of Interior affaires reported that the mafia was collecting protection money and controlling 80% of the businesses in the south, and was estimated to be generating 13 billion pounds in profit (“Economy of Italy”). Due to the reaction time of the government, many laws are slow to pass and once passed are slow to…

The majority of the countries in Europe have a Parliamentary system in which they have cabinet which is led by the Prime minister and there is the Head of state which can be a President or the respective monarch if the country is a symbolic monarchy. Especially the function of the President is rather vague as it depends on the state. If the monarch is the head of state, the power is often limited in order to limit the unequal influence of the monarch. This differs with the President as he might…

In the UK, the prime minister is seen as the head of the elected government, he/she is seen as the main representative figure of UK and, the leader. Being the prime minster obviously has its rewards, powers such as the ability to appoint and dismiss ministers, control over government agenda. Etc. these are powers only the prime minster can exercise. Thus it seems as if the prime minster of the UK is very powerful, yet with power, there’s also some constraints, even for the prime minister. There…

The President can, and has, break up Parliament and call for new decisions. The President selects the Prime Minister. Together, the President and Prime Minister head the official branch. The President does not have veto control over enactment, but rather can request that Parliament rethink a bill. The Prime Minister heads The Government, similar to the American Cabinet. Most bills went into law start with the Government. The President manages the Cabinet…

President. In Canada, the Prime Minister is not a part of the Constitution, rather the Governor General acts as the executive. By convention, however, the Governor General acts only on the advice of the Prime Minister who has the confidence of the House of Commons. The Prime Minister is able to achieve such support from the Members of Parliament, with a majority government, through party discipline – a power not available to the President. Party discipline also gives the Prime Minister immense…

difficult for people as it is not the way we live our lives and this is perhaps the reason there is such a big wedge and difference between politics, politicians and people, for most people a sense of honesty underpins the way we deal with each other. Prime ministers ask the public to place their trust in them, but it is difficult to do so when they do not even trust their own political parties. Politicians cheat and deceit not only the people they are meant to lead and protect but also their…