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DC Police are federally funded. So is the military. All should be sent home, no exceptions, until everything funded again. I've read a few places in Australia

by ck2 13y ago

DC Police are federally funded. So is the military. All should be sent home, no exceptions, until everything funded again. I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once? All we have left is a "discharge petition" trick if 218 signatures can be assembled - it's actually something used in a movie. Which is insane. But that is the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition

msbarnett 13y ago
> I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once? It's a fairly typical feature of parliamentary systems that, if the Government fails to pass a Matter of Confidence (such as, among other things, a budget), this constitutes the passage of a Motion of No Confidence, and results in the government being dissolved. This has happened any number of times in the history of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK, among many others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeated_by_votes_of_no_confidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeate... for a list
potatolicious 13y ago
> "I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once?" This is a trait that applies to (nearly?) all countries that follow the Westminster system, which is to say Britain and many of its former colonies, including Australia. The basic concept is that if a vote of non-confidence is passed, then the ruling government must dissolve and elections must be called. The trick here is that all appropriations bills are automatically considered to also be confidence votes. I'm not sure about Australia, but in Canada it goes one step further: any bill, introduced by the ruling party, that represents their core party agenda, is also automatically a confidence vote. So, for example, if a party wins an election on a platform of banning gay marriage, and the subsequent bill fails to pass, the government is dissolved. This can have some positive effects - it tends to make party platforms more moderate and the legislation itself less extreme. This only works in multi-party systems though, since in a two-party system the majority will simply never lose a confidence vote.

by ck2 13y ago

msbarnett 13y ago

> I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once? It's a fairly typical feature of parliamentary systems that, if the Government fails to pass a Matter of Confidence (such as, among other things, a budget), this constitutes the passage of a Motion of No Confidence, and results in the government being dissolved. This has happened any number of times in the history of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK, among many others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeated_by_votes_of_no_confidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeate... for a list

potatolicious 13y ago

> "I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once?" This is a trait that applies to (nearly?) all countries that follow the Westminster system, which is to say Britain and many of its former colonies, including Australia. The basic concept is that if a vote of non-confidence is passed, then the ruling government must dissolve and elections must be called. The trick here is that all appropriations bills are automatically considered to also be confidence votes. I'm not sure about Australia, but in Canada it goes one step further: any bill, introduced by the ruling party, that represents their core party agenda, is also automatically a confidence vote. So, for example, if a party wins an election on a platform of banning gay marriage, and the subsequent bill fails to pass, the government is dissolved. This can have some positive effects - it tends to make party platforms more moderate and the legislation itself less extreme. This only works in multi-party systems though, since in a two-party system the majority will simply never lose a confidence vote.