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UK system, US system - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 105 people
      - Hereditary
        
        not elected
      - The House of Lords is an unelected chamber and serves mainly as a revising body. Review and suggest changes to bills passed by the Commons, often providing expertise and a broader perspective. While the Lords can delay legislation or propose amendments, they cannot veto a bill outright if the Commons disagrees with them.The House of Lords includes life peers, bishops, and hereditary peers, many of whom have expertise in various fields (law, business, science, etc.). They use their knowledge to scrutinize proposed laws more deeply than the Commons might be able to.
      - The House of Lords has limited power over financial matters. If the Lords reject a money bill (like a budget), the Commons can override them.
    - - Representerer de 650 constituensies (valgkretser)
      - 650 people
      - Main role is to make and pass laws. The House of Commons has exclusive control over financial matters, like taxation and government spending. The government must have the confidence of the House of Commons to remain in power. The Prime Minister and most of the government ministers are drawn from the House of Commons.
        
        The most important parties are the Labour Party (arbeiderpartiet), the Conservative Party (høyre, FRP) and the liberal democrats (venstre).
      - elected
        
        first-part-to-post system (FPTP)
        
        The system where citizens in each constituensiency vote on the individual candidate that they want to become the mP from their constituency to the parlament. The candidate with the most votes becomes an mP and get a place in the House of Commons,
  - - - The opposition is the second highest number of seats in the chambers, and their job is to scrutinize (critically observe) the actions of the government.
      - Are elected by the opposition leader, aka Kemi Badenoch from the Conservative Party.
- - - - 10th Downing Street
- - - - 435 members
        
        One member for each of the districts. There are districts in each of the states.
      - Serve on two year terms.
      - The speaker of the house. One person which is the presiding officer (møteleder). Their primary job is to maintain order during debates, ensure that parliamentary rules are followed, and make sure that all members have an opportunity to speak. The Speaker is meant to be neutral and nonpartisan once elected, which means they are expected to set aside their party affiliations and represent the whole House fairly.
        
        Mike Johnson is the speaker of the house. He is from the Republican Party. The speaker of the house is second in line of presidency after the vise president, and are typically from the majority party. They are often seen as the leader of that party in the House of Representatives. The speaker of the house get chosen by voting from the representatives.
      - Primary job is to create, debate and pass laws.
      - can accuse an official like the president or an minister, of committing high crimes or misdemanours. This is called impeachments. If the majority votes yes, it means that the official has been formally charged. They then send it to the senate, which holds a trial, similar to a court trial, but senators fulfill both the role of defending and the prosecusion. After the trial, the Senate votes on whether to convict the official and remove them from office. They then have to have 67 out of a 100 to do that.
      - Represent the people
    - - Two senators per state, 100 in total.
      - The presiding officer is the vice president. The vice president is not deeply involved in what the senate do, like the speaker of the house is. The vice president doesn´t take part in debates or decision-making, but are mostly there when the Senate meets in formal sessions, so not regularly. The most important job the vice president has in the senate is casting a tie-breaking vote when the senate is equally divided.
      - Where the impeachment trials happen, and they vote wether or not a president should be removed from their position.
        
        Responsible for advice and consent. They consent to who the president wants to have in the cabinet, and stuff like that. They also have to approve international treaties (traktater), and has the power to filibuster, (delay) the legislation through unlimited debate.
      - 6 year terms.
      - On daily basis they are responsible for voting bills into laws. Bills can be presented in both the house and the senate but has to go through both chambers before becoming a law.
      - Represent the states