Evaluation of Parliament as a Law Making Body
“Parliament isn’t the most effective body to make laws.”
Parliament is an elected supreme law-making body that is able to create new laws that reflect the needs of the people. It is not always effective as there are many different factors that can both help and hinder the process of legislation within the two houses. By being an arena for debate parliament is able to formulate effective laws through by discussing and debating the presented purpose of a proposed law. Thus lessening any chance of an unjust and inconsistent law being passed by allowing many different views to be voiced and considered. However with government controlling the majority of seats within the lower house, proposed laws are easily passed and in some occasions party discipline is used to achieve this. By forcing its members to vote according to what the party mandates, some laws involving different electorates don’t reflect the views of that area. Furthermore some proposed laws may be take months, or even years, to be passed. This is largely due to a hostile upper house. Senate is described in this manner the government does not hold a majority and so the senators may show hostility towards any plans of change in the laws and therefore vote against them; an advantage of this is that proposed laws will be debated more. However the disadvantage is that some laws have to be watered down in order to be passed thus making them not as effective as they could be. An example of this is GST which had to be watered down before it was accepted by Senate and in doing this the law itself become more complicated and harder to decide which items would have GST added to them.
As the supreme law making- body parliament is able to change existing laws and create new ones as the need arises within as long as the problem falls under its jurisdiction. Parliament is able to amend laws that have become outdated because of changed values in society and those that are ineffective due to advances in medicine
Parliament is an elected supreme law-making body that is able to create new laws that reflect the needs of the people. It is not always effective as there are many different factors that can both help and hinder the process of legislation within the two houses. By being an arena for debate parliament is able to formulate effective laws through by discussing and debating the presented purpose of a proposed law. Thus lessening any chance of an unjust and inconsistent law being passed by allowing many different views to be voiced and considered. However with government controlling the majority of seats within the lower house, proposed laws are easily passed and in some occasions party discipline is used to achieve this. By forcing its members to vote according to what the party mandates, some laws involving different electorates don’t reflect the views of that area. Furthermore some proposed laws may be take months, or even years, to be passed. This is largely due to a hostile upper house. Senate is described in this manner the government does not hold a majority and so the senators may show hostility towards any plans of change in the laws and therefore vote against them; an advantage of this is that proposed laws will be debated more. However the disadvantage is that some laws have to be watered down in order to be passed thus making them not as effective as they could be. An example of this is GST which had to be watered down before it was accepted by Senate and in doing this the law itself become more complicated and harder to decide which items would have GST added to them.
As the supreme law making- body parliament is able to change existing laws and create new ones as the need arises within as long as the problem falls under its jurisdiction. Parliament is able to amend laws that have become outdated because of changed values in society and those that are ineffective due to advances in medicine