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Yes, you are "thinking medieval". A few things have happened since the Middle Ages, such as democracy. Thinking modern, the Queen is the head of state and the Prime
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I'm wondering - I know nothing about the field - if there is a word for this type of government where there is nothing between the federal government and the local or municipal government. Eg in Canada the state is styled a 'confederation' where the individual provinces have authority over various
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I came to the article page to find out which party was in power in 1791 (the year in which a bill for the abolition of slavery was first discussed and rejected). Instead I find a somewhat cavalier description of a predominantly parliamentary institution, with no history section, and vandalism of an
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Well in theory, the executive authority of the government is vested in the
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I have removed the infobox "Government agency" from this article as its presence distorts the nature of what the "Her
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it states that the government is led by the prime minister), but I don't think the article says who/what "the
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The problem here is that one needs to make a distinction between, the formal constitution (which is basically medieval) and what is done in practice--What Baghot termed the "dignified" (that part which is symbolic) and the "efficient" (the way things actually work and get done).
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The infobox is forcing the use of misleading or inappropriate terminology. For example, stating that the Prime
Minister is the "minister responsible" completely ignores the theory and reality of both individual and collective ministerial responsibility.
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with all other ministers. Or whether, for example, civil servants are part of "the government"? I believe it would improve the article, if the initial section would explicitly state that "the
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In practice Prime
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Is there any page that lists the current members of the government? I know we have a list of the cabinet, but is there anywhere to find a unified list of all the junior ministers and the like? It seems like such a thing would be in order.
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Currently the article contains "is the head of state and the sovereign, but not the head of government." The Queen is the personification of the state, rather than head of state (you have to think medieval)
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The text says "The Government Ministers all sit in Parliament, and are accountable to it." How are the Ministers who are from the House of Lords accountable to Parliament? --
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I think ehat is being done with the sentence I have quoted from the article is mixing up the "dignified" and the "efficient" without making the difference clear. --
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