Constitutions And The Commons
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Constitutions And The Commons
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Author : Blake Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-26
Constitutions And The Commons written by Blake Hudson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Law categories.
Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal constitution of a nation contributes toward or limits the ability of the national government to manage its domestic natural resources. Furthermore it considers how far the constitution facilitates the binding of constituent states, provinces or subnational units to honor the conditions of international environmental treaties. While the main focus is on the US, there is also detailed coverage of other nations such as Australia, Brazil, India, and Russia. After introducing the role of constitutions in establishing the legal framework for environmental management in federal systems, the author presents a continuum of constitutionally driven natural resource management scenarios, from local to national, and then to global governance. These sections describe how subnational governance in federal systems may take on the characteristics of a commons – with all the attendant tragedies – in the absence of sufficient national constitutional authority. In turn, sufficient national constitutional authority over natural resources also allows these nations to more effectively engage in efforts to manage the global commons, as these nations would be unconstrained by subnational units of government during international negotiations. It is thus shown that national governments in federal systems are at the center of a constitutional 'nested governance commons,' with lower levels of government potentially acting as rational herders on the national commons and national governments potentially acting as rational herders on the global commons. National governments in federal systems are therefore crucial to establishing sustainable management of resources across scales. The book concludes by discussing how federal systems without sufficient national constitutional authority over resources may be strengthened by adopting the approach of federal constitutions that facilitate more robust national level inputs into natural resources management, facilitating national minimum standards as a form of "Fail-safe Federalism" that subnational governments may supplement with discretion to preserve important values of federalism.
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee Parliament S Role In Conflict Decisions A Way Forward Hc 892
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2014-03-27
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee Parliament S Role In Conflict Decisions A Way Forward Hc 892 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Political Science categories.
The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee publishes its own draft parliamentary resolution setting out the process that should be followed to consult Parliament on conflict decisions, to serve as an interim step towards putting Parliament's role in war making decisions on a legal footing. The Committee has repeatedly called on Government to make progress on the Foreign Secretary's commitment in 2011 to "enshrine in law for the future the necessity of consulting Parliament on military action". The key points of the report are as follows: (1) The debate in the House of Commons on 29 August 2013 regarding Syria and the use of chemical weapons highlighted the important role Parliament plays in conflict decisions; (2) The Government needs to make a clear statement of how it intends to honour the Foreign Secretary's commitment of 2011, and give a specific Minister responsibility for making progress on this.; (3) A parliamentary resolution would serve as a useful interim step towards enshrining Parliament's role in law, by embedding the current convention and clarifying some of the ambiguities that exist under current arrangements.
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee The Government S Lobbying Bill Volume I Hc 601 I
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-09-19
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee The Government S Lobbying Bill Volume I Hc 601 I written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Political Science categories.
The Committee supports the aims of increasing transparency in lobbying and effectively and fairly regulating third-party campaigning, but finds that the Government's bill is seriously flawed, because of inadequate consultation and a lack of pre-legislative scrutiny. Moreover, the definition of "consultant lobbying" is so narrow that not only would it exclude in-house lobbyists, which was the Government's intention, but it would also exclude the vast majority of third-party lobbyists and particularly the larger organisations. Many companies undertake lobbying as part of a wider communications and public relations business, and they spend very little of their time meeting directly with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries, meaning they could argue they were exempt from registering. The register should be expanded to include in-house lobbyists, and to cover the provision of advice on lobbying, as well as direct contact with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries. Special Advisers and Senior Civil Servants should be included in the list of people with whom contact counts as lobbying. Part 2 of the Bill, on non-party campaigning, and particularly the definition of spending "for electoral purposes" is confusing. The Committee urges the Government temporarily to withdraw the Bill and support a motion in the House to set up a special committee to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny, using the text of the existing Bill as a draft. The special committee should be charged with producing an improved Bill within six months.
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee House Of Lords Reform What Next Hc 251
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-10-17
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee House Of Lords Reform What Next Hc 251 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Political Science categories.
House of Lords reform is a large and thorny issue on which it has proved very difficult to get political consensus. This inquiry focused on the incremental changes that could possibly be achieved outside the wider reforms that are doubtless required. Creating the power to remove Peers who have actually broken the law of the land and to remove persistent non-attendees will enjoy widespread support and would indicate that the unelected chamber was not opposed to sensible reform. Establishing a consensus about the principles that should determine the relative numerical strengths of the different party groups in the House of Lords, and for codifying such principles, is probably the most contentious of all the issues considered, but it is also the most crucial to any further progress. The Government and political parties in the Lords need to set out their positions on this matter and to engage in dialogue that will establish a consensus before the next General Election, so that both Houses can act upon an agreed reform
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee Parliament S Role In Conflict Decisions An Update Hc 649
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-09-06
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee Parliament S Role In Conflict Decisions An Update Hc 649 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-06 with Political Science categories.
Further Government response to HC 923, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215559586). Earlier response published as HC 1477, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215561473)
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee The Impact Of Queen S And Prince S Consent On The Legislative Process Hc 784
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2014-03-26
House Of Commons Political And Constitutional Reform Committee The Impact Of Queen S And Prince S Consent On The Legislative Process Hc 784 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Political Science categories.
The report discusses the impact of Queen's and Prince's Consent on the legislative process. It notes that Consent is a matter of parliamentary procedure and could be abolished by means of addresses to the Crown, followed by a resolution of each House. If the House authorities decide that Consent is needed for a Private Member's Bill, the Government should as a matter of course seek Consent to remove any suggestion that the Government is using the Consent process as a form of veto on Bills it does not support. When the Queen or the Prince of Wales grant their Consent to Bills, they do so on the advice of the Government but the process of Consent is complex and arcane and its existence undoubtedly fuels speculation that the monarchy has an undue influence on the legislative process. Consent serves as a reminder that Parliament has three elements and its existence could be regarded simply as a matter of courtesy between the three parts of Parliament. The Committee says the process should be simplified and recommends that Consent should no longer be signified personally by a Privy Counsellor; that the requirement for Consent is published as soon as the Bill is printed; and that Consent be signified at Third Reading in both Houses, in all instances. The latter change would make it more difficult for the Government ever to use the process of Consent as a way of curtailing debate on Private Members' Bills it did not like.
Commons Democracy
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Author : Dana D. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Commons Democracy written by Dana D. Nelson and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with History categories.
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a representative republican government—Commons Democracy examines the power of the democratic spirit, the ideals and practices of everyday people in the early nation. As Dana D. Nelson reveals in this illuminating work, the sensibility of participatory democratic activity fueled the involvement of ordinary folk in resistance, revolution, state constitution-making, and early national civic dissent. The rich variety of commoning customs and practices in the late colonies offered non-elite actors a tangible and durable relationship to democratic power, one significantly different from the representative democracy that would be institutionalized by the Framers in 1787. This democracy understood political power and liberties as communal, not individual. Ordinary folk practiced a democracy that was robustly participatory and insistently local. To help tell this story, Nelson turns to early American authors—Hugh Henry Brackenridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Caroline Kirkland—who were engaged with conflicts that emerged from competing ideals of democracy in the early republic, such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the Anti-Rent War as well as the enclosure of the legal commons, anxieties about popular suffrage, and practices of frontier equalitarianism. While Commons Democracy is about the capture of “democracy” for the official purposes of state consolidation and expansion, it is also a story about the ongoing (if occluded) vitality of commons democracy, of its power as part of our shared democratic history and its usefulness in the contemporary toolkit of citizenship.
The Constitutional History Of England In Its Origin And Development
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Author : William Stubbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Constitutional History Of England In Its Origin And Development written by William Stubbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Constitutional history categories.
Journals Of The House Of Commons
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1803
Journals Of The House Of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1803 with categories.
Official Report Of Debates House Of Commons
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Official Report Of Debates House Of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Canada categories.