Growth of The US Constitution

Growth of The US Constitution

Growth of The US Constitution. The Constitution as it emerged out of the Philadelphia Convention was a brief document consisting of a Preamble and seven Articles condensed into 89 sentences, Since then the Constitution has been steadily changing, developing, expanding and adapting itself to the new conditions. The Framers knew that if the Constitution, was … Read more

Essentials Features of US Constitution

Essentials Features of US Constitution

Essentials Features of USA Constitution. The United States Constitution is an amazing document. A bold experiment in democracy more than 200 years ago, it has proved both stable and flexible enough to survive and remain effective in a world totally different from the one in which it was written. Constitution as a Document:- The Constitution … Read more

Principle of Cabinet System in UK

Principle of Cabinet System in UK

Principle of Cabinet System in UK . The Cabinet is, thus, a wheel within a wheel. Its outside ring consists of a party that has a majority in the House of Commons; the next ring being the Ministry, which contains men who are most active within that party; and the smallest of all being the … Read more

The Cabinet System in Uk

The Cabinet System in Uk

The Cabinet System in Uk. The Cabinet is the core of the British constitutional system. It is the supreme directing authority; the magnet of policy, as Barker calls it, which co-ordinates and controls the whole of the executive government, and integrates and guides the work of the Legislature. According, to Bagchot, the Cabinet is a … Read more

The Ministry of UK

The Ministry of uk

The Ministry of UK. The term Ministry is used in two senses. Sometimes it is used to mean Cabinet as if the two terms are synonymous. Sometimes it is used to mean both the Cabinet and other Ministers who are not members of the Cabinet. The second meaning is preferable. When a new Prime Minister … Read more

The Privy Council in UK

The Privy Council in UK

The powers of the Crown are exercised through different agencies. Some are exercised by Ministers acting singly in the Departments over which they preside, some are performed by the Privy Council and its various Committees, some by the Cabinet and some are carried on with the help of the permanent Civil Servants. It will, therefore, … Read more

Origin of the Party System in USA

Origin of the Party System in usa

Origin of the Party System in the USA. Political parties are indispensable for the working of a democratic government; without them, says MacIver, ‘‘there can be no unified statement of principle, no orderly evolution of policy, no regular resort to the constitutional device of parliamentary elections nor of course any of the recognized institutions using … Read more

Stages in Political Development of England

Stages in Political Development of England

Stages in Political Development of England. At the start of the Middle Ages, England was ruled by a king. The 19th century saw the political world begin to change. The United Kingdom is a unitary state with devolution governed within the framework of a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch. Stages in … Read more

Development of the Constitution

Development of the Constitution

Development of the Constitution of The UK does not have a single codified constitution; instead, the constitution is formed from several sources, including statute, common or case law, and international treaties. Even then, they had to act following the law and take into account the people’s will. Development of the UK constitution:- From the above description, we note one … Read more

The Salient Features of the Constitution

The salient features of the Constitution

The salient features of the Constitution are that it is uncodified; flexible; traditionally unitary but now debatably a union state; monarchical; parliamentary; and based on a bedrock of important constitutional doctrines and principles: parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, separation of powers. The Salient Features of the Constitution:- From the nature of the Constitution flow … Read more