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Politics cap - Coggle Diagram

- - - - cross bench (does not hold the whip of any party)
      - opposition bench (labour, lib dem ETC)
      - Government bench (Conservative)
      - bishops
      - ~ 800 members
    - - Government (conservative) 352 seats
      - opposition (labour) 195
      - SNP 45
      - Lib dem 14
      - independants 15
      - 17 other
      - 650 members
  - - - Pass legislation
      - Legitimisation
        
        allows bills to be enacted and declaring war must have the approval of the commons (Convention)
  - - - established parliamentary sovereignty
    - - 1918 women over 30 with over £5 of property or married to someone who did
      - 1969 voting age reduced to 18
      - 1928
        
        all women over 21 can vote
    - - 1911
        
        removed the lords power of veto, replaced with 2 year delay
        
        lords could not amend or strike down financial bills such as the budget
      - 1949
        
        lords power of delay reduced to 1 year
  - - - members of the cabinet or shadow cabinet
    - - MPs who are not a member of a cabinet
    - - enforce the party line with a three line system (can kick mps out of the party and force them to stand as independants)
- - - - taking responsibility for the actions of the ministers department
      - amber rudd 2018 resigned due to misleading a committee
      - gavin williamson not resigning after accusations of bullying
    - - leaving the cabinet due to not agreeing with it
      - amber rudd left the cabinet and the conservative party due to disagreements over the brexit negotiations
      - rishi leaving the cabinet in 2022 due to the chris pincher scandal and partygate
  - - - prerogative powers
      - leader of the largest party in the house of commons
      - mp in the commons
    - - powers of patronage
      - civil service and judicial appointments
      - appoint life peers
      - negotiate foreign treaties
      - declare war
      - launch trident missles
- - - - sovereignty is held in a single location
    - - not written in a single document (makes it easier to change)
    - - not written in a single document
  - - - habeous corpours (right to fair trial)
      - rule of law
    - - parliamentary sovereignty
      - parliamentary privilege
    - - rules of succession determined by parliment
      - parliamentary sovereignty
      - judicial independence
    - - scottish and english parliaments combined
    - - removed the lords veto
      - reduced power of delay from 2 years to 1 year
      - lords could not amend financial bills
    - - britain became a part of the EEC
  - - - salisbury convention (lords wont vote against a bill in the government's manifesto)
    - - acts passed by parliament
      - human rights act 1988
    - - erskine may
      - av diecy
    - - how the judiciary interprets the law
    - - maastricht treaty 1992 (established the EU)
      - agreements made with other countries and international organisations
- - - - salaries are not determined by parliament
      - judges are not members of a political party
      - security of tenure
      - parliament cannot express an opinion on an ongoing case
      - physical separation