Essays on Members Of Parliament

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The broad issue of gender equality and empowerment of women has been discussed in length and depth by various stakeholders in society. In fact, the topic stands out as one of the most highly debated issues through the years. The continued occurrence of incidences of gender discrimination clearly points out that the debates are yet to yield their ultimate objectives. The primary contention in all such arguments is the continuous portrayal of women as a lesser gender and thus belittling the morality and feminine’s obligations in society. Male chauvinists, who consider themselves superior and more potent have continuously ...

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The recent developments in Turkey have shown the important role that the constitutional reforms will play in determining the nation’s future. The preceding mass protests in 2013 were accompanied by an influx of corruption scandals that linked with political and business icons and the judiciary. One of the political reforms that are being considered is that the politicians should show the public what they possess. The elected officials such as ministers and political party’s leaders should elect the leaders that disclose their assets to this public. Another reform is that political ethics should be passed into law. ...

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Climate change is fast becoming one of the most important issues facing humanity in the near future. Many countries have begun to establish frameworks that will allow them to avoid dangerous climate change within their borders; one of these pieces of legislation is known as the Climate Change Act of 2008. This piece of legislation, passed into law in the United Kingdom in 2008, establishes a number of foundational legal minimums that the United Kingdom needs to meet before the year 2050. Essentially, this is a legal structure that forces individuals and companies in the United Kingdom to work ...

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A government is the organization arms these are legislature, the judiciary, or the executive. All the nations of the world always need to have a form of government that will help them to avoid having anarchy. Democratic government is that the government that allows the citizens of a nation to manage their government either directly or through the elections of representatives’ .In contrasts the authoritarian government that does not allow direct participation of citizens. There are two major types of democratic governments; these are the presidential and the legislative systems.

The presidential system

The president in this system is the head of state as ...

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The debate on the adequacy and sufficiency of presidential versus parliamentary systems has been raging since the fall of the Soviet Union and its communist ideals. Academicians, scholars, and politicians from diverse parts of the world are deeply stratified by the two democratic systems, with each side professing more benefits than the other. The choice of a democratic system for a nation depends on varying factors such as their culture, history, demographic characteristics, and composition of the population (O’Neil, 2012). While each democratic system has its own merits and demerits, I personally think that the presidential system is better at ...

Prisoners' Right to Vote in the UK and the Need for the Current law Reforms

Voting is the most common way of choosing leaders in the continents. Voting rights are the privileges given to those who have acquired the requirements to vote, for example, attaining the required age of eighteen years. However, restrictions are placed on some people as prisoners and ex-members of parliament. A case in point is observed in the UK where prisoners are denied the right to vote. This may be a major setback to the social life of those citizens behind bars, but may also act as a control measure for security reasons in the state of UK. Issuing the inmates with a ...

South Africa has faced a lot of problems, and is no longer viewed as an emerging economy. The country is facing issues such as unemployment and slow economic growth (Cohen, 2014). The workers keep on striking because they are not satisfied with their jobs. The country needs to create decent jobs for its people. According to the Bloomberg article of September 2014, South Africa experienced a very long strike by its platinum mining workers. More than 70,000 miners were involved in the strike. The strike went on for a period of 5 months. The strike affected the operations of major producers ...

Canada is made up of a representative government under the constitutional monarchy. The government is democratic because the members of legislative assembly are directly elected by the people although by monarch it means that the head of the country is the queen or the king. Elizabeth II is the head of state and the official queen of Canada. The prime minister of Canada chairs the cabinet meetings and he is the head of government who represents the queen alongside the governor general. The powers enjoyed by the prime minister of Canada have made the political scientists to argue that Canada ...

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Just like a celebrity, the ideas of Benedict Anderson need no introduction. The scholar, theorist and modern philosopher holds the most peculiar ideas about nationalism. Benedict believes that the nation is an imagined community based on the absence of some factors. On the contrary, Partha Chatterjee believes that there was a big difference between the form of nationalism in Asia and Africa, and that in European countries. Partha Chatterjee argues that the main differences lie in the forces and reasons behind such nationalism. Worth mentioning is that nationalism is defined by the same metrics by the two scholars, but the reasons ...

The House of Commons is the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament and comprises of 650 members who are democratically elected. The members of parliament represent concerns and interests of the UK public. The House of Commons has three main roles. The roles are centered on legislation, finance, and scrutiny of the government (Thorne 38). The House of Commons is very effective when it comes to controlling the government. This is explicitly highlighted in its three major roles. The first role, legislation, is defined as the process through which laws and statutes are made and enacted. This ...

Arguably, in the entire world there are various forms of government, in which countries have an option to adopt. One of the forms is called constitutional monarchy. This is a form of government, whereby a monarch takes charge of the state within the specified parameter stated in a constitution. It can be blended constitution, written or uncodified. In one way or another, constitutional monarchy differs from the absolute monarchy; in this case, absolute monarchy is a form of government whereby absolute monarch is a basis of power, but it is not constitutionally bound in legal terms, yet the monarch has powers to control respective ...

1.0 Introduction Canada has had elections since 1792; that was when the Upper and Lower Canada conducted their first elections. Elections in Canada are held at different levels of the government including the federal (national), territorial, provincial as well as municipal. Minimally the citizens must be 18 years in order to vote for any representative. The Canadian parliament has two chambers which include a lower chamber, the House of Commons with 308 members and the upper chamber, the Senate with 105 members .The members of the House of Commons serve for maximum of four years and are elected in ...