POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mass Communication, John Nunziata, Speech From The Throne
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Heads of state: head of state: in a parliamentary system the head of state is a mostly ceremonial role which is just the face of the country and performs symbolic functions. The queen has a local representative stand in in 15. British overseas territories (bot"s) such as jamaica and belize. The head of state function in each of the provinces is performed by the lieutenant governor: there are parliamentary democracies without the queen such as the republic of ireland. It broke away from britain with the passage of the anglo-irish treaty of 1921. The irish government is almost the same as the canadian except they have different names i. e. house of. The only difference is that their head of state (president of ireland) is elected: in trinidad, the head of state is elected by parliament while in canada"s gg is appointed by the.
