The Law Making Process

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCBK:C070750942

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House of Commons Procedure and Practice by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit Pdf

This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0104005408

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Parliament and the legislative process by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution Pdf

Parliament and the legislative Process : 14th report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Evidence

Author : John V. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073527669

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How Our Laws are Made by John V. Sullivan Pdf

Author : E. George MacMinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0771885598

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Parliamentary Practice in British Columbia by E. George MacMinn Pdf

Author : Canada. Department of Justice. Legislative Services Branch,Canada. Legislation and House Planning Secretariat
Publisher : Department of Justice Canada
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCBK:C055931002

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A Guide to the Making of Federal Acts and Regulations by Canada. Department of Justice. Legislative Services Branch,Canada. Legislation and House Planning Secretariat Pdf

Acts and regulations are among a government's most powerful tools for fulfilling its democratic mandate. The steps involved in making them have evolved over centuries and reflect the attention and care required to ensure that they operate effectively and fairly. This guide provides a comprehensive description of how Acts are made at the federal level in Canada and answers questions about particular aspects of how they are made and the people involved. It also outlines the main steps involved in making federal regulations.

Author : Abner J. Mikva,Eric Lane
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060710675

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Legislative Process by Abner J. Mikva,Eric Lane Pdf

Once again, expert authors Mikva and Lane draw on their considerable experience to explore and explain the legislative institutions and processes of the United States. Legislative Process, Second Edition, offers a current and comprehensive examination about the realities of how law is made. Here are just a few reasons why so many of your colleagues choose this distinctive casebook: extraordinary authorship, Abner J. Mikva is a former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, a five-term Congressman, and Counsel To The President during the Clinton Administration. Eric Lane has extensive experience with both state and local legislatures effective use of primary materials, including bills and statutes, committee reports and debates, legislative rules, Constitutional provisions and legislative authorities, and cases practical and process-oriented approach shows students what happens, plus how it happens, step-by-step historical focus gives context To The topics and perspective to current legislative enactments a statutory paperback from the same authors is also available Completely revised for its Second Edition, The casebook now covers: new limits to Congress' commerce clause power an enhanced discussion of what documents evidence the enactment of statutory law the continuing debate over statutory construction the end of the term limit movement the New Lobbying Disclosure Act and campaign finance proposals equal protection jurisprudence to limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 major new cases US v. Morrison (Violence Against Women Act), Hunt v. Cromartie (voting rights), US Term Limits v. Thornton and Cook v. Gralike (congressional term limits), Colorado Federal Campaign Committee cases (limits on First Amendment), and Clinton v. New York (balanced budget bill)

Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman,Stefanie Egidy,James Fowkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107043671

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Due Process of Lawmaking by Susan Rose-Ackerman,Stefanie Egidy,James Fowkes Pdf

This comparative study of the law of lawmaking demonstrates the interplay between constitutional principles and political imperatives in four modern polities.

Author : Michael Zander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782258070

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The Law-Making Process by Michael Zander Pdf

As a critical analysis of the law-making process, this book has no equal. For more than three decades it has filled a gap in the requirements of students in law or political science taking introductory courses on the legal system and is now in its 7th edition. It deals with every aspect of the law-making process: the preparation of legislation; its passage through Parliament; statutory interpretation; binding precedent; how precedent works; law reporting; the nature of the judicial role; European Union law; and the process of law reform. It presents a large number of original texts from a variety of sources – cases, official reports, articles, books, speeches and empirical research studies – laced with the author's informed commentary and reflections on the subject. This book is a mine of information dealing with both the broad sweep of the subject and with all its detailed ramifications. "In a crowded market place Zander's latest edition of The Law-Making Process stands out like a beacon in the fog. Well chosen extracts from stimulating texts enable the neophyte student of the law making process in England and Wales to grapple with the issues of the hour with a forcefulness and insight we have long come to associate with the author. Highly recommended." Professor Alan Paterson "Law-making is important, fascinating, and fun. This new edition of Michael Zander's stimulating book on law-making brings that out. It takes account of the many developments since the 6th edition in 2004, ranging across the work of the Law Commission, parliamentary scrutiny of Bills, the relationship between our courts and the European Court of Human Rights, the EU, and many other matters. Well chosen extracts and thought-provoking commentary help law and politics students at every level to understand the raw material with which they work, and make more experienced practitioners and academics look afresh at topics we thought we understood. I recommend it highly." Professor David Feldman "As counsel, judge and now cross-bencher in the House of Lords I have been taking part in the law-making process for over fifty years. In explaining to me what I have been up to, Michael Zander both informed and amused. Not only does he deal in detail with every aspect of the law-making process, but he has assembled a rich cornucopia of commentary from a wide variety of sources. He has shown a degree of self-restraint in expressing his own views, though his use of an adverb made them pleasingly plain when he stated “On 3 October, 2014, the Conservative Party published an 8 page document, brazenly called “Protecting Human Rights in the UK”. I commend this book to anyone who wishes to understand the far from simple way that law is made in this country." Lord Phillips

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107590408

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521761529

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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress by Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman Pdf

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Author : Barbara Sinclair
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506322858

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Unorthodox Lawmaking by Barbara Sinclair Pdf

Most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed “unorthodox lawmaking.” In this much-anticipated Fifth Edition of Unorthodox Lawmaking, Sinclair explores the full range of special procedures and processes that make up Congress’s work, as well as the reasons these unconventional routes evolved. The author introduces students to the intricacies of Congress and provides the tools to assess the relative successes and limitations of the institution. This dramatically updated revision incorporates a wealth of new cases and examples to illustrate the changes occurring in congressional process. Two entirely new case study chapters—on the 2013 government shutdown and the 2015 reauthorization of the Patriot Act—highlight Sinclair’s fresh analysis and the book is now introduced by a new foreword from noted scholar and teacher, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, reflecting on this book and Barbara Sinclair’s significant mark on the study of Congress.

Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Oregon
ISBN : UOM:39015078317495

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Oregon Blue Book by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0660369680

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Our Country, Our Parliament by Anonim Pdf

Author : David G. McGee
Publisher : Dunmore Publishing
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 187739906X

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Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand by David G. McGee Pdf

Author : S A Walkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032130199

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The Legislative Process in Great Britain by S A Walkland Pdf

Originally published in 1968, this book deals with the process of public legislation in modern Britain at the time, not in terms of constitutional formulae, but by a realistic appraisal of the relationships between the political institutions and forces which gave the process its shape. It concentrates particularly on the procedures and conventions which operated at the preparatory stages of legislation, and established that legislation was almost exclusively a governmental function, Parliament playing only a minor role. It is particularly concerned to stress the extent to which consultation by the government with pressure groups was now a major feature of the legislative process, and concludes that subordinate departmental legislation, developed as a result of collaboration between pressure groups and Civil Servants, was the most characteristic and important stage of the legislative process in Britain. The book brought together the conclusions of recent scholarship in this field, and the result is a balanced perspective of an important decision-making process of British government at the time. Today it can be read in its historical context.