The executive branch proposes a rule, a district court judge can block it, then one member of the Supreme Court determines if Congress would have approved of that rule. The Constitution establishes a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In The Calculus of Consent (1962: 235) Buchanan and Tullock assert: (1) cete ris paribus, while a coalition controlling less than a majority ...

The following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on December 7, appears in today’s edition of Legal Times (available to subscribers here ...

Some constitutional provisions are open to interpretation. One constitutional requirement that is not ambiguous, however, is the requirement that every bill pass both houses of Congress before it can ...

Recent research on parliamentary government demonstrates that institutions critically affect government formation and survival. Yet, surprisingly, virtually no work has explored the impact of ...

This week’s episode is called “The Bicameral Mind” and refers to a popular psychological theory related to how a person thinks and acts. Bicameralism is the belief that the mind once had two separate ...

Every time the national assembly elections roll around, the demand for a caretaker government becomes one of the main concerns for the citizens of Bangladesh. History has witnessed a great lack of ...

Following a presentation by the ad hoc committee on bicameralism, Senate approved the committee’s recommendations to amend Articles 36 and 62 of Concordia’s bylaws, to strengthen Senate’s authority ...

Ireland and New Zealand have much in common: similar population size; similar post-colonial experience; an inherited Westminster parliamentary model. But New Zealand abolished its upper house. Is it ...

In government, bicameralism (bi, "two" + camera, "chamber") is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a legislature ...