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Goverment
Elementary Government revision
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Social Studies
10th Grade
07/31/2013

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Term
MMP
Definition

Mixed Member Proportional-

each elector has a vote for a local member of parliment and one for preferred political party. 

Term
Local Goverment
Definition

City or District council, control rubbish, water, townplanning, sewage.

People pay rates for these.

Term
Head of State
Definition

NZ HOS is the sovereign Queen Elizabeth

Govener General is the Queens representative in NZ

Term
Parliment
Definition

Makes the laws

Usual number is 120


Term
Speaker of the House
Definition

Applies the rules of the house

3rd highest

Term
Prime Minister
Definition
Leader of Goverment
Term
Ministers
Definition

Responsible for particular areas of...

Introduce bills to the house

Most of their work is based in their communities

Term
Leader of the House
Definition
Determines the order of Goverment buisness in the House
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Leader of Opposition
Definition
Member who leads the largest political party that is not part of the Goverment
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Whips
Definition
Are organisers and administrators of the members in each of the political parties in the house
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Clerk of the House
Definition
The Clerk Officer is appointed by the Governer General as an expert
Term
Excecutive Council
Definition
The Governer General and the cabinet
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Judiciary
Definition
The judges and lawcourts that interpret the laws of the land.
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Legislative
Definition
The main body of parliment that makes the law
Term
Three sections of NZ goverment
Definition

Excecutive Council

Judiciary

Legislative

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