POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: President Of The United States, Bicameralism, Minority Government

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Di erent from levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal) Head of state (heading the common well) vs. head of government (prime minister) Head of state (the queen or the governor general) Presidents cannot be voted o and they must be impeached. Pm must maintain con dence otherwise he can be voted o . Powers and quali cations are speci ed in the constitution. Multimember representative body which considers public issues . Legislation (bill cannot be passed unless it is passed through the senate and the house of commons) Authorizing expenditure (house of commons comes together to decide how much money should be given to each department) Making governments (house of commons makes the majority or the minority government) Smallest legislatures in the world is timbale and the biggest is in china. Canada has 388 members in the house of commons and the us has 435 (medium sized legislature)