What sorts of bills do individual legislators create?
A) Individual legislators draft most important legislation, including immigration reform.
B) Most individual legislators focus on major legislation benefiting their party's interests.
C) Individual legislators draft minor legislation, such as tax breaks for constituents.
D) Few individual legislators deal with minor legislation, such as smoking bans.
Compare the parliamentary systems of China and Great Britain.
A) Great Britain's parliament is bicameral while China's is unicameral.
B) Great Britain's parliament is unitary while China's is solitary.
C) China's parliament is bicameral while Britain's is unicameral.
D) China's parliament is three-chambered while Britain's is bicameral.
Examine the power relationship between Britain's House of Commons and the House of Lords.
A) The House of Lords is the upper house and thus determines most of the country's foreign
policy. The House of Commons deal with domestic affairs.
B) The House of Commons overrides any objection from the House of Lords with a simple
majority vote.
C) The House of Lords is the more powerful branch drafting the majority of legislature and
overriding weak legislating by the House of Commons.
D) The House of Commons works with the prime minister, who uses a whip system to
maintain coherence in the House of Lords.
Within a unitary system, how useful is an upper house?
A) The upper house is absolutely necessary.
B) Its utility waxes and wanes according to power distribution.
C) It is less necessary than the lower house.
D) Its usefulness is unclear.
Assess the role of Britain's House of Lords.
A) The primary house in Britain's parliament, they are the architects of most new laws in the
United Kingdom.
B) Holding similar weight as the House of Commons, they pass legislature in coordination with
one another.
C) A revisionary body, they rewrite laws vetoed by the prime minister.
D) Mostly an elderly debating society, they sometimes catch errors in laws that are passed too
quickly.
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