Parliament
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- Created on: 06-04-18 20:55
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- Parliament
- House of Lords
- composition
- Life peers
- Peers who are entitled to sit in the Lords for their own lifetimes
- Appointed under the Life Peerages Acts
- Appointed by PM with recommend-ations also being made by opposition leaders.
- Hereditary Peers
- Peers who hold inherited titles which also carry the right to sit in the lords
- There were over 700 hereditary peers, but since 1999 only 92 are permitted to sit
- These 92 were elected by all the hereditary peers in the unreformed house
- Life peers
- Lords Spiritual
- The bishops and archbishops of the Church of England
- 26 in total
- The bishops and archbishops of the Church of England
- Can only delay laws
- powers
- amendments to legislation
- proposed in lords but has to be approved by house of commons. Legislative ping pong is when they do it repeatedly to get something passed.
- delay bills
- can delay a bill for one year to show parliament they should reconsider. They tried to do this with the fox hunting ban
- Salisbury convention
- from the 1940's it is an unwritten rule that the HOL cannot obstruct a proposal that was in the government's manifesto
- amendments to legislation
- composition
- House of Commons
- Supreme legislative power
- Can make, unmake & amend any law it wishes
- A government that is defeated in the Commons on a major issue or matter of confidence is obliged to resign or call an election
- Functions
- representation
- MPs represent constituents and may represent 'interests' such as trade unions, or particular professions, provided these interests are declared
- legitimisation: allows for elected representative to grant their approval for most actions of the government
- scrutiny: the policies and actions of the government
- representation
- House of Lords
- Each one elected by a single member parliamentary constituency
- FPTP
- Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011
- General elections are held at regular intervals at the end of a 5 year fixed Parliamentary term
- recruitment
- in a parliamentary system of government the convention is that ministers from the PM downwards must be MPs or Peers.
- Functions
- representation
- MPs represent constituents and may represent 'interests' such as trade unions, or particular professions, provided these interests are declared
- legitimisation: allows for elected representative to grant their approval for most actions of the government
- scrutiny: the policies and actions of the government
- representation
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