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The Controversy Of Choosing A Parliamentary System For Westphalia

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Regarding the executive system for Westphalia, a parliamentary system would be most beneficial for various reasons. Our main objective is to satisfy both the New Socialists as well as foreign observers. With a parliamentary system, it would appear that we are concentrating power in a legislative body with various individuals rather than a sole individual under a presidential system. Foreign observers could be alarmed if we chose a presidential system because under that system, only one single person could yield power. Although there could be multiple advantages for the Westphalian Nationalists under a presidential system, it’s not worth the headache nor the trouble of attempting to appease foreigners due to the concentration of power.
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Both the United States and Canada use this system and we can argue that in support of it. It prevents a single chamber from essentially “rushing” through legislation that could be unpopular. However, in order to stick to our goal, we could make it to where one chamber has little to no power in respect to legislation while the other chamber creates and votes on the actual legislation. An example of this would be the Senate of Canada; it rarely rejects legislation from the House of Commons and cannot purpose legislation that appropriates funds or centers around taxes, leaving most of the legislative power the House of Commons. By focusing most legislative powers in one chamber, the New Socialists would satisfied because they’d get their ten legislative seats, only in the chamber will little to no power, but they’ll receive their seats …show more content…

Firstly with Italy, it consists of a closed-list party system where voters cast their votes for parties rather than candidates themselves. When a party is declared victorious, the party heads then determine who within the party will fill the seats. Determining who will fill the seats involves party loyalty, campaign donations, strong track record, importance to the party, popularity/favorability, etc. Whereas the lower house in the United Kingdom and both houses in the United States concentrates around single-member districts and a plurality of votes. As mentioned earlier, candidates under this system only need to garner the most votes in an election to win. Whether that is one more vote than your opponent, or fifty more votes than your

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