Parliament

• Parliamentary Supremacy means that parliament has the right to create, change and remove laws.
• Why should parliament be supreme?

  We elect MP's democratically
• Parliament is made up of :

  • House of Lords
  • House of Commons
  • Monarch
• What type of law does parliament make?

  Statutory law
• What is the government?

  • Prime minister and their cabinet
  • Political party with the majority of seats in HoC
  • The Executive
• What branch is parliament?

  The Legislature
• Who sits in the House of Commons?

  650 MPs - 649 represent constituents, 1 elected speaker
• Who sits in the House of Lords?

  780 peers
• House of Lords Act [1991]


  peers are no longer hereditary : 91 left
• Other than parliament, who can make law?

  1. The EU
  2. Judges
  3. Local councils
• What branch is the government?

  The Executive
• What does each MP represent?

  Constituencies
• Who no longer sits in the House of Lords?

  Hereditary peers, Law lords
• Separation of Powers

  1. Legislature
  2. Executive
  3. Judiciary
• Legislation

  Any written published law
• A statute


  An individual Act of Parliament
• The Government 


  Made up of Members of Parliament belonging to the political party that has a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
• Life peers


  Appointed by the monarch.

  Title cannot be inherited.

  Can sit and vote in the House of Lords.
• Lords Spiritual


  26 bishops of the Church of England

  Sit in the House of Lords
• Lords Temporal


  Secular members of the House of Lords

  Life peers and the last of the hereditary peers
• Law Lords


  Carried out the judicial work of the House of Lords until 2009

  First justices of the Supreme Court

  disqualified from sitting in the House of Lords