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    Better off out or in? Gaining an insight on How and Why European Law (EU and ECHR) has an impact on the UK can be challenging. Before overcoming this obstacle it is advised to acquire basic knowledge on the founding treaties and those currently in force. The sources of law and their effect will analyse, whether the UK should remain a part of the European Union or not. The end of WW2 resulted in the creation of an intergovernmental organization The United Nation, promoting Peace and Human Rights

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    Better off out or in? Gaining an insight on How and Why European Law (EU and ECHR) has an impact on the UK can be challenging. Before overcoming this obstacle it is advised to acquire basic knowledge on the founding treaties and those currently in force. The sources of law and their effect will analyse, whether the UK should remain a part of the European Union or not. The end of WW2 resulted in the creation of an intergovernmental organization The United Nation, promoting Peace and Human Rights

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    consequence of this many people agree that Scotland would be better off as an independent country. Some say the union is no longer fit for purpose and it is holding Scotland back. But many people oppose these views saying Scotland needs the rest of the UK and the economic and social factors of independence would be too great to deal with. Independence for Scotland means that we will have the right to

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    “Parliament voluntarily gave effect to the UK 's obligations and duties under the former Community and now EU Treaties in national law.” , this meant Parliament would transfer authority within UK law to the EU involvement. Campaigners for Brexit saw the need for the reintroduction of Parliamentary sovereignty through commonly promoted statistics concerning the effect of the EU on UK law, some Brexit campaigners were motivated by the claim that “65% of UK law is EU-influenced” however this figure

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    systems in the modern world is the first past the post electoral system. In the UK, the first past the post (FPTP) system is the voting method used to elect Members of Parliament to their seats in the House of Commons, and is also the means used to elect the Prime Minister. By design, the system results in the outright victory of whichever person or party gets the majority of their constituents’ votes, regardless of how narrow their margin of victory may have been. This system commonly results in one-party

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    delineation of powers between UK local and central government is described as a game-like negotiations in a complex system of networks in which central government is as much dependent on local government as powerful over it (Entwistle, 2012, p.6). This means that the Welsh government is more likely to cooperate and negotiate with the central government for improving the delivery of services; while the legislative branch is able to make its own laws within the country. In the UK fragmentation and centralization

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    A Democratic Deficit in the EU The question over the legitimacy of the EU has been a nearly continuous debate and many commentators appear to agree that the EU suffers from a severe ‘democratic deficit’. There are many reasons why this perception is so widespread. As a multinational body it lacks the grounding in common history and culture upon which most individual polities can draw. However, this should not necessarily disqualify the EU from being treated as a democratically

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    any country will impact their politics and society. The impact that it has depends on say, whether that country has a democratic regime or an authoritarian regime and how the institutions that are stated in the constitution are organised for example the government, the legislature, the electoral system, the party system and so on and this piece of academic writing will demonstrate how. A constitution can be written or unwritten. Written constitutions are entrenched, thus it is difficult to amend the

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    How President Elections Affect the Markets Every four years, the citizens of the United States of America cast their vote for whom they want to lead our country. What might not be so obvious is how important of a role the economy plays in affecting which party will come out on top. Not everyone has kids and cares about education and not everyone is well versed enough about foreign policy to care about either immigration or the conflicts in the middle east. However, everyone cares about his or her

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    Tony Blair, the UK went to great lengths to justify its participation in the United States’s “War on Terror,” by publicly setting clear guidelines about who was being targeted and how they were fought. After news of the September 11 attacks reached the rest of the world, Blair soon gave a speech addressing the attacks and how they would affect the entire world. In the speech, he firmly supplied the message that the fight against terror is the UK’s burden. Blair stated that "The UK feels a duty to

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