POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Secret Ballot, Majority Government, Fiscal Federalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2300
• Professor: Tamara Small

Document Summary

Week 5: the legislature: house of commons and senate. Quiz- fiscal federalism & on, the executive, the legislature. Important: fusion of powers between the cabinet and the house of commons. Fusion of powers: duel membership in both the exevutie and legislature, parliamentary, britain, canada, australia, germany. Responsible government entails one rule government is responsible to and must always majority of elected members of have the confidence of the house of. If the government looses confidence something must happen such as asking for a dissolution or that prime minister must resign and the gg must pick a new pm out of who is there so that the government has confidence. The cabinet enjoyed a measure of predominance and control over the legislatures. Because of things like responsible government, party discipline, move towards executive federalism, there is extreme amounts of executive dominance. Despite the fact that the government is supposed to be responsible to the government is able to control the legislature.