Referendum

he First Minister (FM) in Scotland is the head of the Scottish cabinet and has responsibility for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish government policy. These roles- and numerous additional ones- indicate that the FM does, in fact, play an important roles within the Scottish Parliament. This essays main focus will be to evaluate the FM's importance; specifically, his importance in regards to decision making within the parliament and consequently within Scotland itself. The…

Recognition of gay and lesbian marriage with respect to Federalism 1. Edited Book - The lesbian and Gay Movement and the state edited by Manon Tremblay, David Paternotte and Carol Johnson This books points out the growing recognition of lesbian and gay, in short LGBT, rights around the world. Despite the many obstructions with regards to researching and investigating on LGBT, this book aims to bring light on the relationship between the state and LGBT movements, focusing on two key queries:…

The acquisition of knowledge is a process engrained in human nature, rooted in the desire to uncover the truth and driven by the asking of questions; inquiries that evoke information or incite an answer. When searching for knowledge, it may be necessary for the question stimulating the pursuit of knowledge to be neutral, defined as not being biased in any way and unaffected by personal experience and knowledge, in order for one to arrive at an absolute, objective truth or certain knowledge.…

A referendum on the anti-discrimination ordinance known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was on the ballot for Houston voters in Harris County, Texas, on November 3, 2015. It lost 61 to 39. Houston is a fairly liberal city with a lesbian mayor who has been elected for the past 3 terms without much controversy. Part of this referendum would allow transgender people to use the bathroom that correlates to their gender; makes sense, right? It is frustrating that HERO was so strongly…

can be seen in the Aboriginal Australians, who weren’t even seen as humans until 1967 and the native Americans, that had their country taken away from them and their traditional ways disrupted beyond belief. Before the 1962 and 1967 Australian Referendums, Aboriginal Australians were classed as native Flora and Fauna. In turn, they were granted no voting rights and were segregated from the white population through Government projects called missions or reserves. They were made to give up their…

Now that a semester has passed, we should return to one of the very first questions of the course: is Québec a distinct society, and if so, how and why did it develop this difference? Several themes persisted throughout our studies that sought to answer these questions, including that of la survivance. This ideologically loaded phrase describing survival by means of French, Catholicism, and a farming vocation related back multiple times to other concepts. With regards to language, the…

Act (IRCA) was passed, creating for the first time penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal immigrants. 1994: California’s Proposition 187 passed in 1994, attempts to deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants; although the referendum does not specify immigrants from Mexico and Latin America, its execution would certainly be aimed at these groups How would you incorporate these policies and guiding questions into your lesson…

the countryside (and he really was), but they did not get a chance to see who he could be and what his real ambitions were. He was fast to give promises during his campaign, and it worked. In 1995 and in 1996 Lukashenko as a president initiated 2 referendums to change the flag and the coat of arms of the country, to get the right to disband the parliament, to prolong the term of office for the president etc. He also removed the chairman of the…

In 1982, after a long negotiation process with the provincial premiers, the Canadian Constitution was patriated by Pierre Trudeau’s federal government. Although Ontario and New Brunswick were supportive of patriating the Constitution, the other eight provinces decided to take a stand against Trudeau’s threat of unilateral action. The Premiers of those provinces formed the Gang of Eight and opposed Trudeau’s attempt to bring home the Constitution. On November 4, 1981 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau…

Prohibition was an attempt to forbid the manufacture, transportation and distributing of intoxicating beverages. By repealing the prime source of drunkenness, the Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, deliver economic success and improve overall health and hygiene in Canada. Instead, it had quite the opposite effect. Alcohol became more lethal to consume; organized crime blossomed, bootlegging (the illegal sale of alcohol as a beverage) rose dramatically…