Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The British Constitution
- The Constitution
- Parliament - A legislature
- Portrayed to be a supreme power
- Judicery Branch
- Controls the employment of judges, lawyers, etc.
Enforce punishment for law breaking.
- Codified Constitution
- Governed by a document with a set of rules and
laws that cannot be broken at all.
- United States of America
- The 10 Amendments
- Uncodified Constitution
- The country does not use a document with rules and
laws. Laws and rules are scattered across several
sources.
- The United Kingdom
- Has several documents that are followed by the
component countries. However mainly controlled
through Parliament and the Monarch.
- Reflects the union of its
component nations
- Civil Service
- Civil servants provide advice to
ministers to help run their
department or branch.
- Senior MPs usually run departments.
- 20-25 Ministers are in the Cabinet
- The Cabinet is the main governing body of the
government and is where all department minsters and
the PM meet to discuss things.
- The Prime Minister has the Royal Prerogative
- Allows the PM to carry out Monarch like
duties, including the ability to wage war.
- The Legislature
- Parliament is
made up of the:
- The House of Lords + the Monarch
- Some inherit their place
- Cannot be elected
- Some are appointed
- Some are bishops of the church of england
- The House of Commons
- Elected by the voters.
- They take a seat in
the house.
- A Bicameral system
- 2 Chambers involved in the passing of
bills.
- The Judicery Branch
- Applies law
- Makes sure the executive does
not exceed their powers.
- When a case comes up before the Judicery
during Judicial review. Judges must find out if
ministers have followed the correct decision
making process.
- If it is wrong, then the
minister must go back and
avert the change and make
sure the correct process is
followed. Else it is an illegal
decision.