Government Legislative Branch There are many important parts in the process of the legislative branch. The legislative branch creates laws‚ and during that process many things must happen. The bill must pass majority votes for the House‚ the Senate and then the President must sign the bill into law. If the President vetoes it‚ the Senate can override it. The legislative branch is very complex but important to our country’s government. The most important step of the legislative branch is when
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The interest group I chose is Common Cause. It is one of the largest public-interest groups and was founded in 1968. Its goal is to reorder national priorities toward “the public” and to make governmental institutions more responsive to the needs of the public. Common Cause sparked a democracy reform movement that keeps growing. It drove the movement that won voting-right for 18-year-olds. It has also led campaigns that secured and now work to strengthen and defend the laws limiting the influence
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How did the Constitution guard against tyranny? Tyranny is means ‘as harsh absolute power in the hands of one individual’; it has happened everywhere. Whatever the size or shape‚ tyranny is a problem because it means too much power in the hands of one person or group. In 1787‚ Representatives from almost all the states in the U.S‚ met in Philadelphia to fix the issue of tyranny. The House presents us to “The Articles of Confederation” to help guard against tyranny. The Constitution guarded against
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STENTHGS AND WEAKNESSES OF PARLIAMENT ------------------------------------------------- 2008 Question 9 ------------------------------------------------- ‘Two strengths of parliament as a law-maker are that it makes laws which reflect the views of the community and can make laws whenever the need arises.’ ------------------------------------------------- Critically examine these two strengths. (6 marks) The following points could have been used to develop an evaluation of the strengths noted
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Webquest activities question 1: social values: The ethics and values of socety change over time because society is always changing its values and that places pressure onto the law to change or adapt over time.what is seen as ok in society may not be deemed acceptable at another time. The need for harsher sentencing in law reform may appease the needed features of punishment‚ but stricter penalties have not been proven to show reduced crime rates and then follows in seeking to promote social values
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Parliament is the supreme law-making body within it’s jurisdiction. Parliaments main function is too establish‚ debate and pass bills on behalf of the people that correctly reflects the values and views of the community. Numerous factors contribute to the parliamentary system as an effective law making body such as parliament is elected by the people and provides an area for debate however some factors weaken parliament as a law maker‚ these include the length it takes to make legislation and ability
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Drilon v De Venecia Topic: Commission on Apointments Facts: In August 2007‚ both the Senate and the House of Representatives (HOR) elected their respective representatives to the Commission on Appointments (CA). The contingent of the Senate for the CA is composed of 1 from KAMPI‚ 1 UNO‚ 3 Lakas-CMD‚ 2 PMP‚ 1 NPC‚ 1 LP‚ and 1 PRP. The contingent of HOR is 6 Lakas-CMD‚ 2 KAMPI‚ 3 NPC‚ and 1 CIBAC Party List. Because of the non representation of LP‚ who have 20 elected member at the HOR‚ to the contingent
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“How Did the Constitution Guard Against Tyranny?” When fifty-five delegates from eleven of the thirteen states met in Philadelphia in May of 1787 (four years after the Revolutionary War) for a Constitutional Convention‚ one of their biggest concerns was to establish a government that did not create any kind of tyranny. Tyranny is the abuse of power by one supreme ruler‚ like a dictator or king. Tyranny can also happen if a few people (such as several generals or religious leaders) seize control
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Salutary Neglect is an undocumented‚ British policy that avoids the Navigation acts and it’s meant to keep America colonies to only trade with Great Britain. This policy was created after Great Britain came to war with another country and required more soldiers in the fight. Therefore‚ the soldiers taking part of the Navigation Acts left to help be apart of the war. Since many of the British forces were fighting in the war‚ the colonies remained independent. Salutary Neglect also encouraged the American
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Our national government‚ in my opinion‚ was structured by following the writings of Montesquieu. Montesquieu wrote that leaders could not be trusted to always do what was right for the people and that govenment should be structured to keep the leaders of the government from acting in a selfish manner and passing laws that would help a select few instead of the majority of the people. That is exactly the way our Founding Fathers thought when they were writing the Constitution. Montesquieu
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