UK political system

Question 1

what are the three branches of the government?

Answer 1

-legislature, law making body parliaments main role is to give consent to proposed laws, it can amend and reject proposed legislation.
-executive, develop new legislation and present it before legislature for approval, arrange for implementation of laws and finally they run the state and administer the country.
-judiciary, refers to the legal system and judges in particular

Question 2

what is crucial in the Westminster model?

Answer 2

-there is fusion between the executive and the legislature.
-concentration of government making decisions within a single body.

Question 3

what upholds the Westminster model?

Answer 3

-UK’s un-codified constitution means that parliament is legally supreme.
-ministers are accountable to and removable by parliament.
-FPTP creates strong single party government
-HOL as unelected body has weak power
-limited authority to judges.

Question 4

what are the three different types of sovereignty?

Answer 4

-legal
-political
-popular

Question 5

what is legal sovereignty?

Answer 5

• holding the ultimate source of all legal authority and power under the west Minster model this is Parliament.

Question 6

what is political sovereignty?

Answer 6

-considers who ultimately makes political decisions in reality, at elections the people are politically sovereign because they will decide who forms the next government.

Question 7

what is popular sovereignty?

Answer 7

-relates to occasions when the people themselves appear to be making ultimate decisions. e.g at elections people become sovereign for the day