Evaluate Parliament as a lawmaker Parliament is the supreme law making body consisting of all elected members of both houses. Its main role is to make laws‚ laws that not only protect society and individual rights but reflect the societies values. Parliament can be viewed as an arena for debate where new ideas for laws and proposed laws are discussed and debated on their purpose for an effective law to be delivered. Thus lessening the chance of an unjust law being created. However‚ parliament is not
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strengths and weaknesses of parliament as a law-maker. Illustrate your answer with a comparison of law-making by courts. (12 marks) Parliaments primary role is to make laws on behalf of the community as the need arises. Parliament can also change the law as the need arises. Eg//cloning. As parliament only sits for a small portion of the year they cannot always change the law as the need arises. They also may not be able to foresee all future circumstances and laws may become outdated. Sometimes
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EFFECTIVE PARLIAMENT; Parliaments organize themselves effectively to carry out their key functions. Although ‘effectiveness’ may not at first sight seem a distinctively democratic value‚ it becomes so where the functions performed are those necessary to the working of the democratic process: law making‚ oversight of the executive‚ financial control‚ and so on. Electorates are not well served if parliaments do not have sufficient resources to carry out these functions‚ or are wasteful or ineffective
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Parliament is the national representative body which has supreme legislative powers within its jurisdiction. While it oversees the completion of a number of other tasks parliaments’ main role is undoubtedly to make and pass laws and it has to be said that it achieves this role efficiently. Parliament and the members of parliament are elected solely by the people and are therefore responsible to the voting public. When passing laws parliament has the ability to‚ as part of its law making process obtain
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Parliament is the supreme law-making body within it’s jurisdiction. Parliaments main function is too establish‚ debate and pass bills on behalf of the people that correctly reflects the values and views of the community. Numerous factors contribute to the parliamentary system as an effective law making body such as parliament is elected by the people and provides an area for debate however some factors weaken parliament as a law maker‚ these include the length it takes to make legislation and ability
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How Effective is Parliament? The word effectiveness means that a product has the capability of producing the desired result. Effectiveness of Parliament is based around representation‚ scrutiny‚ its accountability‚ legislation and its quality and protection of rights. If they were able to do these to a high standard then they would be classed as being effective. The effectiveness of representation would be that Parliament and the parties within represent their constituents and sections
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PM limited by European Constitution which defeats Parliamentary Sovereignty. Limited by scrutiny of Parliament (apparently). Foley‚ political scientist since days of Margaret Thatcher‚ remarked on her presidential style‚ believed this had increased with Tony Blair. Reduction of cabinet meetings to half an hour per week‚ informal attitude to discussion (‘sofa’ politics)‚ disregard for cabinet agenda (Millennium Dome – cabinet wanted it “fired into space”‚ Blair went along with it anyway)‚ appealing
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The legislative Process in Parliament/The making of law in Parliament: The following are the parliamentary stages a Bill will have to go through before becoming law: a)First Reading. This is a mere formality. In the case of a Government Bill‚ the Minister concerned presents the Bill to the House. The title of the Bill is read. There is no debate and no voting. The Bill is then circulated to all members. b)Second Reading. This is a crucial stage. There is vigorous debate by the Opposition and
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Law Making and Influences on Parliament Assignment 1 – Unit 2 – P2 How do Parliament create an act? Every act of Parliament begins as a Bill. A Bill is a draft law and will fall into one of three categories: Government (Public) Bills The most common form of bill. These are put forward by the parliamentary party in power. Gov’t policies are set out in the party manifesto‚ which in itself is a list of things that the party say they will do should they come into power. Bills based on these
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“Parliament isn’t the most effective body to make laws.” Parliament is an elected supreme law-making body that is able to create new laws that reflect the needs of the people. It is not always effective as there are many different factors that can both help and hinder the process of legislation within the two houses. By being an arena for debate parliament is able to formulate effective laws through by discussing and debating the presented purpose of a proposed law. Thus lessening any chance of
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