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- 2. Great Britain is a democracy in which the constitutional situation is a contradictory one. The people
- 3. The curious situation is the result of the struggle between the Crown and the Parliament which
- 4. The country has no written constitution. The state – itself sometimes called the Crown – operates
- 5. ‘Her Majesty’s Government’ governs in the name of the Queen and its hub, Downing Street, lies
- 6. Ministers, the Prime Minister included, continue to represent the parliamentary constituencies which elected them. Government consists
- 7. The civil servants wishing to stand for Parliament must resign first from the Civil Service. The
- 8. Parliament. Her Majesty’s Government derives its authorities from its party representation in Parliament. While the Government
- 9. From the 17th cent. the House of Commons gained power in finance, legislation. Parliament is the
- 10. On one side, to the Speaker’s right sits Her Majesty’s Government and its supporters, and on
- 11. The upper chamber consists of four categories of peer: 1,197 members in 1996. The majority are
- 12. Those peers who do not support any party have ‘cross-benches’ across the back of the chamber
- 13. The electoral system. The country is divided into constituencies, each electing a MP to sit in
- 14. The party system. The political party system has been mainly a two-party system since the 19th
- 15. The legal system of England and Wales does not have a criminal or civil code and
- 16. All criminal cases above the level of Magistrates’ Courts are held before a jury. Civil cases
- 17. A Crown Court is presided over by the judge but the verdict is reached by a
- 18. Traditionally legal profession is divided into two practices: only solicitors deal directly with the public, and
- 19. The government of the United States is based on a written constitution which consists of a
- 20. The three branches are: Legislative Branch consists of the Congress which is responsible for making the
- 21. While the Constitution sets up the system of government, the actual way in which the offices
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