GOVT-130 FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United Government Of New Zealand, Seventeenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Lords Of Appeal In Ordinary
10 Oct 2016
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Concentrates power in the hands of a bare majority or a plurality. Plurality- conservatives had the largest amount of seats after the last election but they did not have a majority. Democracy is exclusive, competitive, and adversarial under this model. Americans promote their legal system as one that should be adopted by emerging democracy. New democracies often choose to follow the british model instead. Separate elections of the senate, house and president make it difficult to have a united government; constitution prevents the us from forming a government in the parliamentary sense. Main legislative body; equivalent to the house of representatives. Number of members since 1945 has varied between 625 and 659 members. 650 members of parliament after last election. Members are elected in single-member districts according to the plurality first past the. In order to form a majority government a party must have 326 seats post system. People in britain vote for a party, not for a person.
