parliament
- Created by: fiona
- Created on: 28-04-13 12:19
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- Parliament
- Functions
- debating major issues
- Redress of grievances-the electorate can change things
- making legislation-"ping pong process"
- scrutiny of the executive-
- sustaining government
- Financial scrutiny- annual budget, MP fiddling expenses
- Representation-Mp's are accountable to the electorate
- Parliamentary sovereignty
- parliament is the source of all political power, no one may have political power unless it has been granted by the electorate
- Laws made and passed by parliament must be enforced by the courts and other authorities
- Parliament is not bound by it's predessesors
- Laws made and passed by parliament must be enforced by the courts and other authorities
- Factortame case
- EU overruled UK by letting spanish vessels fish in British waters even though our laws should have prevented that.
- Reform of Parliament
- Weekly PMQ's
- Freedom of information Act 2000
- both make parliament more transparent
- Reform under brown and cameron
- fixed term parliament
- referendum on av
- Public initiated bills- 100,000 people
- public reading stage- public are allowed to read bills before they are passed
- Functions
- constraints of parliamentary sovereignty
- EU membership
- Executive
- Media
- the electorate +pressure groups
- Reform under brown and cameron
- fixed term parliament
- referendum on av
- Public initiated bills- 100,000 people
- public reading stage- public are allowed to read bills before they are passed
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