Executive- Comparing presidents to the prime minister

Question 1

Evidence that the pm restrained?

Answer 1

-Parliments sovereign
-B.Johnson removed from his own party
-Stalked by big beasts/rebels from party leadership e.g: blair and brown
-Damage of high profile ministerial resignations, Thatcher vs Howe
-Devolved govt
-Vote of no confidence e.g. James Callaghan
-Maintain party support for
-Large majority can get rebellion
-Civil service resistance
-Coalition/minority/suply and confidence
-Offcial opposition in parliment
-Liasons commute
-Maintiain public media support
-Scrutiny understimated
-Hoc arvisatoey
-Ultravirea
-Supreme court declaration of incompience
-Pm not head of state monarch is

Question 2

Evidence the president is restrained?

Answer 2

-Congressional gridlock
-Divided govt
-Judicial review
-Reserved powers of congress
-Two term limit (22nd ammendments)
-Advise and cont powers congress aprove appoint and ratify treaty’s
-Senete rejection John Tower
-Govt shut down, congress refusing to authorise president budget
-Impeachment
-Govt shutdown, obama and trump
-Comsistition imposes a two term limit
-Nixon forced to resign or face impeachment
-By the consistition
-Influence if interest groups
-Iron teiangles
-Response to watergate
-Federalism

Question 3

Evidence the president is unrestrained?

Answer 3

-Appointment powers to supreme court so can alter ideals
-Commander in cheif
-Don’t face rivals in cabinet
-Executive orders agreements and privileges
-Failed impeachment- Trum
-Power flows towards the president
-a proclamation
-Exop
-Executive ordered and agreement
-The imperial presidency
-Regan and iran contra
-Breaking ear power act

Question 4

Evidence the Pm is unrestrained?

Answer 4

-No term limit
-Weak parliamentary scrutiny
-Patronage powers
-Ease of change through statue law e.g: Hol CR
-Large majority
-Blair didny loose vote in HOC for 10 years
-Party unity
-Controll over cabinet
-Presidential style of the PM
-Party MPs elected on manifesto

Question 5

General points of if the pm is significant compared to us president?

Answer 5

-Both restraint and unrestrained by variable factors
-Presidents and PM vary from restraint to unrestrained through their office
-Power waxes and wanes
-Power flows to p in time of crisis and away in peace but due to strong majority this happiness to a lesser extent in the UK
-First 100 days not as significant to the UK PM as majority usually lasts the whole time in the office
-Word significantly is the discriminator term in the question and should be responded to

Question 6

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