文档介绍：Chapter 13 System of Government
December, 2005
Xiao Huiyun
The System of Government
Representative Democracy and also known as Parliamentary Democracy
Monarch -- Constitutional Monarch
What powers does the Queen have?
The Sovereign personifies the state and is, in law, an integral part of the legislature, head of the executive, head of the judiciary, mander-in-chief of all armed forces of the Crown and the ‘supreme Governor’ of the Church of England
The Crown is the permanent
The Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Real name: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor
Birth: 21 April 1926 in London
Children: 3 sons, 1 daughter
The Monarch
The monarch is bound by statute to:
not be a Roman Catholic or marry a Roman Catholic
on the death of a monarch, the oldest male heir will eed to the throne
the death of monarch does not affect the holding of the office under the Crown as laid out in the Demise of the Crown Act of 1901.
In the event of illness, a monarch may appoint Counsellors of State to exercise certain royal functions as laid out in the Regency Acts 1937-53
Legislature
Parliament is the highest legislative authority in the United Kingdom – the institution responsible for making and repealing UK law. It is also known as the Legislature. It consists of three constituent parts:
House mons
House of Lords
Crown
Parliament
Executive
EXECUTIVE
‘Prime Minister’ and ‘Ministers’ or ‘Secretaries of State’(about 25) (Political Heads of Government Departments), all MPs, form Also Junior Ministers
Civil Service(non-political) Permanent officials employed by government. Advise Ministers and implement policy. Top officials popularly known as ‘mandarins’ but accountable to Parliament
Judiciary
JUDICIARY(non-political)
Headed by Lord Chancellor, a leading Law Lord appointed by the Prime Minister. House of Lords is the highest court – will be replaced by the Supreme Court and there will not be Lord Chancellor in the near future, and all this is part of the Constitutional R