POLS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Enumerated Powers, Bicameralism, Law
2 Feb 2017
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Representative branch - congress: our reps in congress have more political power than us so it"s important to make sure they"re representing our beliefs. In constitution, article i has more detail: article i s 8 - congress" enumerated powers, article i s 9 - limitations of congress" power. 4 ways our congress system is unique: It has possibility of divided gov"t - different parties for president v congress: we started to experience the gridlock bc of divided gov"t. In parliamentary system, there are not differing parties in parliament so the lower house of parliament will choose the prime minister. The party that controls the lower house chmost ooses the prime minister from their party. So the prime minister is the same party as powerful party in lower house. No divided gov"t: we have frequent national elections. In parliamentary system there is a max number of years (5) you can go without an election.
