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    Collective and Individual Ministerial Responsibility: Should Ministers or Senior Bureaucrats be Held Accountable for the Department? For years‚ Canadians have stood by and watched as officials of the Canadian government have been questioned‚ accused and held up for public scrutiny on issues of misappropriation of funds‚ personal and public scandals‚ and inappropriate departmental spending of taxpayers’ dollars. In the public eye‚ Ministers abused their public authority and were inadequately

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    Constitutional law The Mauritian Parliament has inherited much from the Westminster Model. The Westminster Model is characterised by: * Parliamentary Sovereignty * Separation of Powers between the organs of the State. A. Parliamentary Sovereignty In any state you will find one ultimate source of legal authority. In countries with a written constitution‚ it will be the constitution which has ultimate authority as in Mauritius. In the United Kingdom‚ with its uncodified constitution‚ ultimate

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    Kapoor‚ Taruneek 10103016 ASSIGNMENT 2 Limiting the Extent of Party Discipline in Cananda Party solidarity and cohesion have always been an integral part of the Westminster Parliamentry system. The leaders of the political parties of the Canadian House of Commons ‚ with the assistance of ’whips’‚ very strongly discipline their party members to vote on issues as a single entity‚ especially in plenary sessions (Olson‚ 2003). Although‚ some degree of party discipline is essential for any political

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    Composed Upon Westminster Bridge – Wordsworth Wordsworth’s poetry was generally typical of the romantic period‚ and although being a romantic poem‚ Composed Upon Westminster Bridge not only portrays the poet’s love for nature‚ but also his appreciation of the City of London. He makes it out that the city and nature cannot be separated; even a concrete jungle is beautiful as it is part of creation. The opening line to the poem‚ “earth has not anything to show more fair”‚ is a hyperbole which shows

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    As an asymmetrically bicameral system (Lijphart‚ 1999 cited in Heffernan 2010 p.22)‚ more power is afforded to the former than the latter; while the House of Lords is a reactive chamber‚ able only to revise and delay the passage of legislation‚ the House of Commons is a policy-making

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    theoretical and it´s not clearly divided. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important part of the UK constitution. The British system of government is the oldest parliamentary democracy in Europe. British parliament was formed in the eleventh century and‚ after the signing of the Magna Charta by King John in the year 1215‚ it came to power and became the main part in the system of government. In this way‚ England set up the base of democracy in the whole Europe. Parliament The British Parliament –

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    responsibilities of governing bodies or the rights of citizens are of constitutional significance. For example the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011‚ this took away one of the prime ministerial powers as it introduced fixed term elections for the first time in Westminster parliament. Another source of our constitution is Common Law‚ which is also known as judge made law. Common Law refers to a body of laws based on tradition‚ and it is developed though a case by case basis‚ This occurs through the use of precedent

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    services running smoothly and effectively. All branches of the government interact with each other to produce laws‚ and by interacting with each other and sharing ideas‚ new policies are created. The central government of the UK is based in London at Westminster. It contains the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Together with the monarch these three government organizations are known as Parliament. Government is made aware of new ideas from the media‚ the public and mp’s discussions in meetings‚

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    Australia Parliament is an assembly of political parties whose primary function is to pass laws throughout each state in Australia. The Parliament of Australia is a supreme law making body‚ which based on British Westminster System is also known as Commonwealth Parliament using bicameral system which means it has 2 houses of a parliament (upper and lower house) and has a national Federal Parliament as well as state and territory parliaments. The functions of each parliament whether at federal or state

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