POLS 1150 Chapter : Chapter 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

Institutions such as the legislature, executive, and judiciary are the specific parts of the state that exist to perform its functions. The political executive (the cabinet, headed by the prime minister) is a small group of members of the elected legislature known as fusion of powers. The executive must maintain the support of a majority of the members of the elected legislature this is the principle of responsible government. The executive (the directly elected president and the officials of his/her own administration, including a cabinet) is entirely separate, distinct from the legislature known as separation of powers o. The judiciary, or the judicial branch (headed by supreme. Court) has a more independent role than in the westminster system. The relationship in this system is checks and balances it is intended to ensure that no one branch is able to become too powerful.