Tuesday, 8 February 2011

UK Parliament

  British Parliament is sometimes called 'parliamentary mother', because these countries once part of the British Empire, which was modeled on some of the political system.United Kingdom Parliament, which is the River Thames in Central London is perhaps the world's most famous. This is mainly because of its unique architecture, including the impressive clock tower commonly known as'Big Ben'.Most people do not know is that the name does not actually refer to the whole tower, inside the water, but only a huge bell.

  There are two House of Parliament which is the House of Commons and the House of Lords.In addition the House of Commons has more power than the House of Lords.There are 659 constituencies in the United Kingdom.529 constituencies are there in England and 72 constituencies are there in Scotland.However there are not same geographical size because some cover a large area, in places where not many people live. Others cover a very small area if the population is dense.Therefore, there will be a lot of constituences in big city.In addition, the political party with most Member of Parliaments forms the goverment and the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister.However, the 'first past the post' system is the people who has the most votes wins, even if they have only one vote more than the next person.When all the Member of Parliaaments are elected, Ministry of Public Security to form a government with the majority of political parties and party leaders to become prime minister.(http://www.parliament.uk/)

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators. Members of parliament tend to form parliamentary parties with members of the same political party. The term Member of Parliament is often shortened in the media and in every day use to the initialism "MP".

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