POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Entrust, Bicameralism
20 Jul 2013
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Cabinet in parliament fuses supreme political authority. Uk model adopted by colonies, but with adaptions. Federal systems like canada and australia have separate courts (supreme. Court in canada, high court in australia: law lords in uk until 2009. No colony adopted a house of lords but some adopted a bicameral model: commons/senate in canada, house of representatives/senate in australia, national assembly/national council of provinces in south africa. Some adopted bicameral models then embraced unicameral model: quebec removed upper house in 1968 now has national assembly, new zealand: abolished upper house in 1950, queensland abolished upper house in 1922. Some adopted unicameral model at beginning: ontario/alberta. Despite changes, essence is the same: monarch (president, prime minister/cabinet, fused political authority. Fashioned with british experience in mind: crown was the repository of sovereignty, shared with popular institutions. Americans relocated sovereignty: sovereignty lies with the people who entrust their sovereignty to governing institutions.
