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Prime Ministers Great Britain
545 wordsTo What Extent Do Cabinets Play A Role in The political executive? A cabinet is delineated as a committee of senior ministers who represent the different government departments or ministers. Most political executives have some form of cabinet. However, the nature of the role of cabinet is dependant on the country it is featured in and the nature of that countries political system. All cabinets though, serve two principal functions: they allow government to display a collective front to legislatu...
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Head Of State Prime Minister
1,352 wordsAs with much of Britains unwritten constitution, the role of Prime Minister emerged by chance, owing more to the apathy of King George I (who couldnt be bothered attending cabinet meetings) than any kind of grand plan. He appointed a sycophantic Member of Parliament to attend cabinet meetings on his behalf. His name was Robert Walpole. Nearly 300 years later many traditions still remain. The monarchy is still the head of state de jure with Royal prerogatives necessary to rubber stamp any parliam...
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Scottish Parliament Northern Ireland
4,010 wordsAdvanced Higher Modern Studies To what extent has devolution of power diluted the central control of the Cabinet and government within the British state. At present, the UK Parliament in Westminster is the supreme political assembly. The UK Parliament is one of the oldest representative assemblies in the world. Parliamentary government in the United Kingdom is based on a two-chamber system. The House of Lords (the upper House) and the House of Commons (the lower house), which sit separately and ...
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World Trade Organization Working Conditions
1,327 wordsThe Good, The Bad, The WTO On May 19, 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT was created. This was not an international organization but an inter-governmental treaty. This provided the framework for the conduct of international trade. But this expanded and grew yearly and in April 1994, in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations expanded on the GATT and created the World Trade Organization or WTO. The World Trade Organization was created with a goal and ultimate ob...
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African American Community First African American
700 wordsHiram Revels Hiram Rhoades Revels was born a free man of African American and Indian descent in a slave state and became the first African American member of Congress. In the process, Revels ministered to the spiritual needs and expanded opportunities for education for the African American community. He began his life in North Carolina. Hiram Revels was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1822, but an exact birthplace has not been identified. He was born of mixed African and Croatian Indian ...
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Maastricht Treaty British Parliament
7,139 wordsHow well does Parliament fulfil its functions? British Parliament has four primary functions. These are representation, legitimization, scrutinizing and informing and legislative. Each of these are performed, by our parliament with a varying degree of success, and this essay is targeted at examining how well each of these functions are carried out. Firstly, there is the issue of representation. How well does Parliament represent the people of Great Britain? To begin with, Britain is a pluralist ...
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Brest Litovsk Felt Threatened
2,589 wordsQuestion 1 Stalin and Trotsky led two very different political careers. Before 1917 Trotsky wasn t even a member of the Bolsheviks, siding with the Mensheviks at the 2 nd party congress in 1903 when the Social Democrats splintered into the two smaller parties: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Trotsky sided with the Mensheviks more pacifist views towards revolution and general protests. In fact it wasn t until after the March revolution in 1917 when he was in jail (following the July days) that he was ...
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Didn Acute T Civil Servants
991 wordsThe principle mechanism of political control of the Civil Service is the convention of individual ministerial responsibility. The convention relies heavily on the notion that the minister is responsible to Parliament for the actions of his department and is expected to give accounts to Parliament of matters relating to his department. The convention is designed to create accountability of ministers to Parliament and to safeguard Civil Servants from blame. In practice some parts of this conventio...
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Prime Minister Cabinet Meetings
1,150 words? The Prime Ministerial Government Thesis Underestimates The? The Prime Ministerial Government Thesis Underestimates The Constraints On The Power Of The Prime Minister. ? The Prime Ministerial government thesis has discredited the view of the Prime Minister as? primus inter pares? ever since it was voiced by R. A. Crossman in his introduction to Bagehot? s The English Constitution and Mackintosh in his The British Cabinet. A number of academics and politicians adhere to the view of Prime Ministe...
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