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Referendums are often praised for providing a country’s citizens with an approximation of direct democracy. Whereas elections enable eligible voters to give their mandate to a particular politician or par...

Intro: conservatism is practical and flexible. It is a means without ends not an ideology. Traditional Con: pragmatic. negative view of human nature therefore everyone needs to be told what to do One Nati...

The House of Lords has 5 main roles: legislative, scrutiny, legitimating, deliberation and recriutment. However the first two are the most important. 

The legislative role is carried out through in...

The appointment process is significant because Supreme Court justices serve for life, and that means presidents rarely have the opportunity to make their mark through the appointments process. Barack Obam...

WTO (originally the GATT), is an organisation, set up during the Bretton Woods Conference of August 1944, that attempts to liberalise world trade and prevent a slide to protectionism that was seen during ...