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BRITISH INSTITUTIONS, british institution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - EXECUTIVE
        
        THE GOVERNMENT
        
        Britain is not a federal country
        
        Local governments have power
        
        Manage almost all public services
        
        Collect one kind of tax (property)
        
        Local representatives elected by the people
        
        THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE CABINET
        
        Single party government and collective responsibility
        
        Prime Minister
        
        Power of patronage
        
        PM's public image
        
        PM informed about everything
        
        OTHER MINISTERS
        
        THE CIVIL SERVICE
        
        Daily running of the country
        
        Implementation of policy
        
        Politically impartial
        
        Permanent position
        
        High salary
        
        Influential
        
        Loyal to the present P.M
      - LEGISLATIVE
        
        The Parliament (is supreme)
        
        FUNCTIONS:
        
        Making new laws
        
        Giving authority to the Government to raise and spend money
        
        Keeping a close eye on Government activities
        
        Discussing those activities
        
        DIVIDED INTO:
        
        HOUSE OF COMMONS
        
        Representatives of all the constituencies elected by popular votation.
        
        Seating arrangement: confrontation, two-party system.
        
        Frontbenchers and backbenchers.
        
        The Speaker: chairs and control discussion.
        
        Committees: examine particular proposals for laws or investigate activities of the government.
        
        The Whips: intermediaries between front and backbenchers.
        
        Votation according to party policy.
        
        HOUSE OF LORDS
        
        COMPOSITION:
        
        Lord Chancellor
        
        Lord Spiritual: representatives of the Church of England.
        
        Lords Temporal: hereditary and life peers
        
        Lords of Appeal: senior judges.
        
        Members are not elected
        
        It has very little real power to refuse a proposal for a law agreed by The Commons
        
        After six months the proposal becomes a law with or without the Lord's agreement.
      - JUDICIARY
        
        House of Lords
        
        Supreme Court of Judicature