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A Political Thread pt. 2
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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 1034147" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>The whole point of HoL is to be a proper revising chamber. I recall my Constitutional law tutor always said the problem in our parliamentary democracy was reform of our HOC and not the HOL. Get that right and HOL will follow. Problem is HOC does not want to give up or be slowed down or have it's legitimacy undermined by a legitimate upper chamber. </p><p></p><p>An upper chamber is could be elected by expertise and serve set limited terms. </p><p></p><p>Which comes back to whether we should have proper separation of powers in our constitution. With the executive branch properly sitting outside of a legislative lower and upper chamber. With a upper chamber properly representing the four nations. And that would probably mean we could then deal with what is point of the monarchy? And a written constitution. And an elected President whose role is to be guardian of the Constitution with the PM and cabinet serving that office to execute executive powers. </p><p></p><p>But god forbid a federalist structure. Better to have a hybrid Parliamentary democracy with devolved powers like we have at present.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 1034147, member: 70552"] The whole point of HoL is to be a proper revising chamber. I recall my Constitutional law tutor always said the problem in our parliamentary democracy was reform of our HOC and not the HOL. Get that right and HOL will follow. Problem is HOC does not want to give up or be slowed down or have it’s legitimacy undermined by a legitimate upper chamber. An upper chamber is could be elected by expertise and serve set limited terms. Which comes back to whether we should have proper separation of powers in our constitution. With the executive branch properly sitting outside of a legislative lower and upper chamber. With a upper chamber properly representing the four nations. And that would probably mean we could then deal with what is point of the monarchy? And a written constitution. And an elected President whose role is to be guardian of the Constitution with the PM and cabinet serving that office to execute executive powers. But god forbid a federalist structure. Better to have a hybrid Parliamentary democracy with devolved powers like we have at present. [/QUOTE]
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