Politics and Law key terms
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Representative government/ democracy
a form of govt in which people are sovereign but are represented in govt by elected members of an assembly
responsible government
the convention governing how the executive is drawn from and responsible to parl.
separation of powers
a doctrine by which functions of govt to make, carry out and interpret law are dispersed in order to prevent a concentration of power
division of powers
the constitutional allocation of law-making authority and functional responsibilities between different levels of govt.
westminister conventions
unwritten constitutional rules that govern the practice of government of westminister systems