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Otus
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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: |
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select committees are made up of both government and opposition MPs. of course it is the oppostion MPs that do more of the scruntinizing. Ministers and heads of department have to account to the committees for their spending, behaviour etc. committee hearings are usually open to the public.
For example the Green party, which only supports the government on the two key votes in parliment (confidence and supply), is very critical of the government in some of these committees. |
At the end of the day it's the numbers and who has the numbers that pass the legislation. I know that's an oversimplification.
BTW I have a question if there are any Americans who read this thread.
In the States it's the congress who has the power to declare war, not the president ... right?
Vietnam was properly termed a 'conflict' because congress never evoked such a power and it could have been illegal 'cause the executive tried to fight the war without full approval or funding.
In Iraqi the congress / senate followed the president and gave full approval. So it was legal in domestic terms. Yet it's ultimately the congress who has the power of war -making , so aren't they the one's who bear responsiblity?
What if the congress declared war but the executive refused? Would the president exercise some power of veto or just ignore the congress.
I guess you could say: 'what if they had a war but nobody showed up?' |
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