Реферат Политическая система Британии, номер: 71628

Introduction……………………………………………………………….. 3
1. Monarchy in Britain…………………………………………………….. 4
2. British Parliament……………………………………………………….. 7
3. Government (the Cabinet of Ministers)………………………………… 13
4. The Civil Service………………………………………………………... 14
Summary.…………………………………………………………………. 17
Sources…………………………………………………………………….. 18

INTRODUCTION

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional (or parliamentary) monarchy. Legislative power belongs to the Queen (formally) and the Parliament. Officially the head of the state is the Queen (from 1952 – Elizabeth II). The monarch has very little power and can only reign with the support of parliament.
The monarch, be it king or queen, is the head of the executive body, an integral part of the legisla¬ture, the head of the judicial body, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the crown, the head of the Established Curch of England and the head of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Parliament consists of two chambers known as the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
The United Kingdom has no a written constitution. The British con¬stitution is based on Acts of Parliament (also called “laws” or “statutes”) and “conventions”, which are commonly ac¬cepted assumptions about the way things should be done.
Parliament and the monarch have different roles in the government of the country, and they only meet together on symbolic occasions such as the coronation of a new monarch or the opening of Parliament. In reality, the House of Commons is the only one of the three which has true power. It is here that new bills are introduced and de¬bated. The House of Lords has limited powers, and the monarch has not refused to sign one since the modern political sys¬tem began over 200 years ago.
The object of our report is to consider all the branches of political system in Great Britain.