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    British Parliament dates back to 1265. England owned its own personal parliament until Acts of Union with Scotland, Ireland and whales although not fully successful due to a large percent of Ireland withdrawing in 1922. UK parliament is known to be the ‘heart of UK Government’ (Leach, Coxall, and Robins, 2011) and is made up of three main components: The monarchy, The House Of Commons and The House Of Lords. It has multiple key features which contribute to the successful workings of Government.

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    Soon after Independence, it was very easy for a legislative elected member to switch his party as he wished, mainly to satisfy and fulfill their ambitions. These personally vested interests created hinderances in the smooth function of Governments. Such consequences were deterring administration therefore the legislatures made an amendment in 1985, 52nd Amendment Act and passed a law called “Anti-defection law” which added a new schedule to our Constitution, i.e., X Schedule. Traditionally this phenomenon

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    could find work and improved the conditions for workers in goldfields in Victoria. The current sitting member for Chisholm is Anna Burke. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party. She has been serving the electorate of Chisholm since 1998 and served as a Speaker for the House of Representatives during the 43rd Parliament. In 2005, Burke moved a Private Member’s Bill in the Federal Parliament to create a ‘Do Not Call’ list to protect people from unwanted telemarketing calls. Recently, Burke declared

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    Becoming Influential Nursing is a profession where there is many areas that need nurses to become influential in order to help change current practices that have been overlooked. One area that should be considered is pay inadequacies within the nursing practice. All nurses deserve to be respected and treated like professionals. In order to ensure that this message is taken seriously, a multistep look at the message is needed. Deciding on an issue, choosing who the recipients are, where to send

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    Should FPTP continue to be used for elections to the House of Commons? The first reason that FPTP should continue to be used for elections to the House of Commons is that it produces effective constituency representation because there are single member constituencies, meaning that people know which MP represents them in the House of Commons, and thus who they can take their grievances to. This is a strength because it results in a strong working link between an MP and a geographical area, thus connecting

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    that a member is in the upper chamber is through hereditary peers and Lord Spirituals. The hereditary peers are members whose family was appointed by kings or queens at one point in the United Kingdom's history, and that family has had that seat since appointment; there are ninety members who are appointed because they are hereditary peers. The other seat is given to twenty-four bishops representing the Church of England in the affairs of state. There is controversy about both of these member groups

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    frontbenchers to make their views more known and make them a more of a familiar face during current issues. An example of this would be having frontbenchers on the BBC question time every Thursday. However backbenchers are still members of parliament, and because parliament is sovereign and the supreme law making authority, they are less pressured to ‘tow the party line’ and therefore can stand more for their constituencies than the party they represent. To conclude, although MPs have a lot of constraints

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    on the Contribution of Recent Asian Immigrants to New Zealand’s Contemporary Business Environment. Date: (date you printed the assignment) For: John O’Sullivan Chinese new Zealander-Pansy Wong: Pansy Wong, 53-year-old ethnic Chinese Member of Parliament (MP), was appointed Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's Affairs in the new-look cabinet in New Zealand. New Zealand educated, and a speaker of English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Shanghaies, she is able to mediate between people

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    until his parents got so frustrated with him and sold him off to the local yakuza. When you enter the yakuza, you also have a foster parent called, an oyabun. In the section of the article, Hessler quotes an ex-gang member in the following, “‘It's an atmosphere, a presence,’ an ex-gang member once told me. As a young criminal, he had been given valuable advice

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    Government is said to be necessary to the existence of a civilized society but how could one survive in a society where the Government isn’t civil to a nation. They have consistently failed to keep Bahamians safe and secure. In Bahamian society cronyism, embezzlement, scandals and corruption have plagued our unsuccessful governments. They must be held accountable thus, circumstances like these should result in immediate termination of any politician without exceptions. The unfair practice by Politicians

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