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	Parliamentary system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A parliamentary system, or parliamentarism, is distinguished by the executive branch of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support of the legislative branch, or parliament, often expressed through a vote of confidence.
		Parliamentary systems usually have a clear differentiation between the head of government and the head of state, with the head of government being the prime minister or premier, and the head of state often being an appointed figurehead with only minor or ceremonial powers.
		In most parliamentary systems, the head of state is primarily a ceremonial position, often a monarch or president, retaining duties that aren't politically divisive, such as appointments of civil service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliamentary_system (2044 words)

	Parliamentary system Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A parliamentary system of government, in short Parliamentarism, is a multi-party form of government in which the executive branch (the Cabinet or the Privy Council) is formally dependent on the Parliament's acceptance.
		In most parliamentary systems, the head of state is generally a ceremonial position, often a monarch or president, however sometimes retaining duties without much political relevance, such as Civil Service appointments.
		The Westminster System is a particular type of parliamentary model that developed out of parliamentary democracy as practiced at Westminster in London and was promulgated as the dominant form of government throughout the British Empire which are now known mostly as Commonwealth countries.
	www.mgzone.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/parliamentary_system.html (440 words)

	Key Terms: Westminster System
		In essence, Westminster is the name given to the system of parliamentary democracy used in countries such as Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
		In essence, the Westminster system is otherwise known as responsible government.
		All three nations follow the principles of the Westminster system, in that governments are derived from the popularly-elected lower house.
	www.australianpolitics.com /democracy/terms/westminster-system.shtml (397 words)

	Parliamentary system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A parliamentary system, or parliamentarism, is distinguished by the head of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support of the parliament, often expressed through a vote of confidence.
		Parliamentary systems usually have a clear differentiation between the head of government and the head of state.
		One major difference between the Westminster system and the types of parliamentarism used on the Continent and in non-Commonwealth monarchies outside of Europe is the voting system.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Parliamentary-system.htm (964 words)

	The Westminster Inheritance
		The origins of Australia's parliamentary system are to be found half a world away in the dawn of British history.
		Australians are, in fact, governed by seven parliamentary monarchies: those of the states and the Commonwealth, with the state governors and the Governor-General all representing the Sovereign.
		It is easy to criticise the parliamentary system of government because it is simply a group of human beings striving with great problems and as often afflicted by ‘Murphy’s Law’ as the rest of humanity.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5557/westmin.html (1399 words)

	Westminster System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Westminster System is a democratic system of government modelled after that of the United Kingdom system of government and used in Westminster, the seat of government, hence its name.
		Although Westminster systems are parliamentary systems, there are parliamentary governments, such as Germany and Italy, whose legislative procedures differ considerably from the Westminster system.
		Most of the procedures of a Westminster system, though not in Ireland, are typically defined by convention, practice and precedent along with, or rather than, codification through a written constitution.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/westminster_system (834 words)

	The Opposition in a Parliamentary System (BP47e) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The role of the opposition in a parliamentary federation such as Canada’s is obviously different from that of congressional representatives in a pluralist federation like the United States, where legislators exercise considerably more independence and need not take their cue from the executive branch.
		Parliamentary reform rose to the top of the agenda in Canada in the late 1960s, largely as a result of the frustrating experience with successive minority governments and the exceedingly long and acrimonious debate over the adoption of a national flag.
		Our electoral system frequently results in sharp regional imbalances in the parties’ caucus representation, in a high electoral casualty rate for caucus dissidents and independents, and in the exclusion of a growing number of minor or so-called "fringe" parties from parliamentary life.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp47-e.htm (6106 words)

	Commonwealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act created a federal system, in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the States - the evolved status of the colonies.
		The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State, the British (or, since 1986, Australian) monarch, is represented at federal and state level by a Governor-General and Governor respectively.
		It is largely based on the Westminster parliamentary system, with a similar structure - House of Representatives, Senate - to the US Congress.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Commonwealth (967 words)

	An Analysis of Proposals for Constitutional Change in New Zealand
		Westminster systems, with their strong reliance upon electoral constraints, and weak reliance upon explicit division of powers, provide considerable scope for politicians to pursue their own policy preferences.
		In the absence of entrenched, written constitutions, Westminster systems have proved capable of sustaining significant evolutionary changes: the extension of suffrage, the growth of the party system, the emergence of caucus as a forum for policy debates, and the extension of the select committee system, for example.
		The mixed-member proportional system is found in Germany, the single transferable vote is used in Ireland, preferential voting is used for the Australian lower house, and the supplementary system is now used in the fledgling democracies of South Korea and Hungary.
	www.nzbr.org.nz /documents/publications/new-publications/constitutional-change.doc.htm (19348 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| Citizenship \| Rise of Parliament
		This was most obvious in response to royal attempts to raise money without parliamentary approval, which led to the formulation of powerful statements of parliamentary privileges, as well as bitter legal battles.
		More broadly, the challenge to the monarch involved a determination to widen the range of issues that Parliament was free to discuss, to increase its ability to criticise the royal court, and eventually to hold the king to account for his actions.
		Once it became widely accepted that parliamentary authority was founded upon popular power, it was only a matter of time before the people exerted their influence.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/citizenship/rise_parliament/citizenship2.htm (742 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In effect, the pre-1978 Westminster-style parliamentary system was abandoned in favor of a "Gaullist" presidential-parliamentary system.
		Under periods of "cohabitation" - in which the president is of one party and the post of prime minister is held by a member of the opposition - the powers of the president are significantly reduced.
		Prior to the April 2002 parliamentary polls the JVP forged an alliance with President Kumaratunga's Sri Lankan Freedom Party in an effort to appeal to nationalism of the majority Sinhala community.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Sri1.htm (1618 words)

	THE PARLIAMENT, THE EXECUTIVE AND THE COURTS: ROLES AND IMMUNITIES, Brennan CJ
		It is a system which, with variations, defines the organs of government of the States and Territories and distributes their respective powers - legislative, executive and judicial - among those organs.
		Parliamentary committees and an elected Senate that is not necessarily of the same political complexion as the House of Representatives monitor the exercise of some powers by the Executive Government of the Commonwealth.
		The powers, privileges and immunities of the Houses of Parliament are the constitutional underpinning of the system of responsible government for they ensure that the manner in which the people's forum exercises its constitutional functions is immune from interference by either the executive or the judicial branch of government.
	www.hcourt.gov.au /speeches/brennanj/brennanj_bond2.htm (5634 words)

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		The main feature of this system is a popularly-elected lower house (House of Commons or House of Representatives) that determines which party shall form government.
		The events in South Australia this week, where the Liberal government of Rob Kerin was defeated in a vote of confidence in the House of Assembly, are an example of the Westminster system in operation.
		The Westminster system operates in all of Australia’s federal, state and territory parliaments.
	www.australianpolitics.com /parliament/short-answers/pe-sa04a.doc (928 words)

	Parliamentary system - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A parliamentary system presupposes a multi-party form of government and clear differentiation between the head of government and the head of state.
		The Westminster System is a particular type of parliamentary system that developed out of parliamentary democracy as practised at Westminster in London and was promulgated as the dominant form of government throughout the British Empire, many of whose colonies, since gaining their independence, have become Commonwealth countries.
		Parliamentary England;: The evolution of the cabinet system (The Story of the nations)
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Parliamentary_system (576 words)

	Maritime Cook Islands Ltd - Corporate Administrators of the Cook Islands Ships Registry
		The Cook Island's involvement with the English legal system began with the declaration of the southern group islands as a British Protectorate in 1898.
		Self-government came to the Cook Islands in 1965 with the adoption of a written constitution which was enacted as a statute of the New Zealand Parliament, the Cook Islands Constitution Act 1964.
		The Cook Islands Court of Appeal was established (abandoning the previous system of the New Zealand High Court sitting as the Court Islands Appellate Court) and appeals to the Privy Council were also established.
	www.maritimecookislands.com /legislative.php (1050 words)

	Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform - Preliminary Statement, March 21, 2004
		This system allows politicians to speak authoritatively for their area, enables issues of local concern to be placed on the public agenda, and provides a mechanism for voters to hold representatives directly accountable for their actions.
		The Assembly is aware that proportional electoral systems are likely to end the dominance of one-party majority governments and lead to a more consensual, or at least coalitional, style of politics in which opposition and small party MLAs have the opportunity to play a greater role in the government of the province.
		On the other hand, systems that are not responsive to the goal of increasing the proportionality of the system would seem to offer little in the way of advantage over the single-member plurality system we now use.
	www.citizensassembly.bc.ca /public/extra/preliminary_statement.xml (2687 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Revisiting the parliamentary model of government - Monday \| December 23, 2002
		While we have not done as well as we might have in operating the Westminster parliamentary system, the fact is that we do have many years of experience as a country using that form of government.
		We are talking about the system of government that affects the lives of every citizen in the country.
		I don't agree that the Westminster model is the root cause of our problems of governance, as some have suggested.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021223/news/news4.html (641 words)

	Australia Government Information
		Under the prevailing Westminster parliamentary system, the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that wins a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives is named prime minister.
		Each state is headed by a premier, who is the leader of the party with a majority or a working minority in the lower house of the state legislature.
		At the apex of the court system is the High Court of Australia.
	www.traveldocs.com /au/govern.htm (533 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > People should decide on Charter change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		More important, direct consultation would immediately answer the nagging question whether a parliamentary system is really the people’s will.
		In a parliamentary system, voting into office the country’s leader, the new prime minister, would be left to our legislators, who most likely would be the same people in Congress today, the same Congress beset by fractious coalitions, starved of ideals and racked by in-fighting.
		In fact, a parliamentary system practiced Filipino style might even abet such a culture.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2003/may/22/opinion/20030522opi2.html (1746 words)

	Westminster System from Business Listings UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Westminster System is a democratic system of government modelled after that of the United Kingdom system, as used in...
		The Westminster System is a democratic system of government modelled...
		It is that the Westminster model of government has been applied in a society to which it is...
	www.canseg.co.uk /businessesuk/Westminster-System.html (337 words)

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		At independence in 1960, the British bequeathed to the Nigerian state a federal system of government with three regions viz East, North and West.
		The democracy fashioned for the newly independent Nigerian state was modelled after the British Westminster or parliamentary system of government.
		The 1979 Constitution jettisoned the Parliamentary system, favouring the Presidential System suited to that of the USA.
	www.nopa.net /Useful_Information/clinton/nigeria-hist.htm (747 words)

	Constitutional Monarchy - 24/09/1992
		Looking at the situation in a different way, the Westminster system requires that there is a non-elective and non-party political Head of State - in Britain the Queen and in Australia the Governor-General.
		The Westminster system is not a satisfactory model for the analysis of Australian Parliament.
		Even if we pretend that the Westminster system is all things to all people, that depends on who you are asking to define it.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC19920924024 (4787 words)

	angry_in_t_o: Something Canada does right...sort of
		In the Parliamentary scheme, the executive branch is the Queen (or outside of the U.K., the governor general - Her Majesty's representative).
		In any case, in the Parliamentary system, these Cabinet ministers work with the Prime Minister to fashion policy and to present advice to the Queen, which is invariably followed.
		The theory is that the executive branch (which is an unelected and hereditary position) acts only on the advice of the legislative branch, and in particular, the advice of a core set of ministers selected from the party that holds the confidence of the legislative branch.
	www.livejournal.com /users/angry_in_t_o/5673.html (895 words)

	Geography - Westminster parliamentary constituencies
		Westminster parliamentary constituencies are the areas used to elect MPs (Members of Parliament) to the House of Commons, which is the primary legislative chamber of the UK and is located in Westminster, London.
		The 2001 constituencies were used again in 2005, except for changes to the Scottish Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies.
		Boundary Commission for England's webpages: their document on the 'Review of Parliamentary Constituencies in England' is particularly useful for further explanation of the regulations of the boundary change process.
	www.statistics.gov.uk /geography/westminster.asp (520 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most benign solution that I can see to the present crisis is for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to remain as president, but effectively relinquishing power, in a voluntary act of “self-sacrifice,” to a caretaker (I am avoiding the use of the word “revolutionary”) government until a shift to a parliamentary system is effected.
		In a Westminster-type parliamentary system, the president (or monarch) is only a ceremonial head-of-state.
		b) It will democratize the electoral system by breaking up family dynasties and free the system from the grip of Big Money, which is the biggest single cause of corruption in government, by channeling all campaign propaganda through a specialized Comelec agency to be formed just for that purpose.
	www.erap.ph /hotcolumn/071405g.htm (999 words)

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