Parliament and Congress : representation and scrutiny in the twenty-first century / William McKay and Charles W. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, W. R., author.

Johnson, Charles W., III, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Parliament.

Great Britain.

United States. Congress.

United States.

Constitutional law--Great Britain.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional law--United States.

Representative government and representation--Great Britain.

Representative government and representation.

Representative government and representation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (596 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The constitutional background of both legislatures and their procedures are described and where possible compared.

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; 1. Introduction; Separation of powers; Congressional and parliamentary powers; Courts and Acts; Themes; 2. Basic Constitutional Distinctions; Congress and the States; Electoral count and election of President and Vice President; Parliamentary sovereignty and statutory devolution; European Union: national accountability and European legitimacy; '. . . Without further enactment . . .'; Parliamentary scrutiny: the significance of EU legislation; Parliamentary debate: the merits of EU legislation

Subsidiarity and the powers of national parliaments3. The Four Houses; The term of a Congress and a Parliament, and the effect on legislation and on Members; Assembly and organization of the four Houses; The presiding officers; The State of the Union and the State Opening; The Chambers: size and arrangement; access to; Extraordinary places of meeting; The Parallel Chamber and other expedients; The Lords: mending, not ending; Supremacy of the lower Houses; Treaties and International Agreements; Confirmation of nominations; Presidential disability and Vice Presidential vacancies

How a sitting is closed: adjournment from day to dayAdjournments requiring consent of other House; Quorums; The significance of differences between a two-party and an efectively multi-party legislature; Legislative staff; Records and papers; Media coverage; Working papers; 4. Representatives, Members, Lords, and Senators; Numbers in the four Houses; Constituencies and districts: the Lords and the Senate; Terms of the mandates, vacancies, and resignations; Qualification and disqualification; Expulsion; Elections and election contests; Campaign practices and finance; Compensation and allowances

Staff and assistance5. Procedural Basics; The general background; Sittings; Motions in Congress; The daily framework; Debate in Congress; Debate in Parliament; Decision making: motions and amendments; Orderliness in debate: relevancy; Order in debate: discipline; Dilatory motions; Limitations and time limits; Points of order, parliamentary inquiries, and appeals; Taking decisions: majorities and super-majorities; 6. The Power of the Purse; Executives and legislatures: one source, two models; Congress: the budget process; Budget reconciliation bills; Revenues; Public debt (borrowing)

Parliament: Ways and MeansSupply; Appropriation; Supply: select committees; New expenditure; Supply, Ways and Means, and the Lords; Congress: authorization for appropriations; Appropriations; House-Senate relations; Executive review of appropriations; Audit and value for money; Outcomes; 7. Scrutiny and Oversight; Introduction; How the oversight function is discharged; Bipartisanship in Congress; Evidence, witnesses, and subpoenas; Committees of the Legislature and the Executive; Individual legislators and oversight; Questions; A case study: war powers; Self-scrutiny; 8. Committees

Introduction

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-965595-2

9786612613562

0-19-162949-9

0-19-157416-3

1-282-61356-1

OCLC:

659584789