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i am going back through revising this topic for my mocks, which is in about a weeks time. however, i am having a little problem with this section.
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Germany 1919-29 help please.
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Posted 28 November 2008 - 08:47 PM
To learn the facts, use pages 32-36 of:
THIS revision diary is you are a clever-kid
or
THIS easy-revision diary if you find it dificult to remember facts.
Spend half your revision time systematically learning the facts.
However, you also need to get yourself ready to do the kinds of question you will meet on the paper, so ask your teacher for past papers and examples of questions, and spend the other half of your revision time doing practice questions.
Who knows - similar questions may even come up.
THIS revision diary is you are a clever-kid
or
THIS easy-revision diary if you find it dificult to remember facts.
Spend half your revision time systematically learning the facts.
However, you also need to get yourself ready to do the kinds of question you will meet on the paper, so ask your teacher for past papers and examples of questions, and spend the other half of your revision time doing practice questions.
Who knows - similar questions may even come up.
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 04:19 PM
Sarah-xo, on Nov 30 2008, 01:53 PM, said:
is democracy and communism the same thing?
No - almost opposites.
Democracy is a system of government - like we have in our country today - where you elect your government. It SORT OF also includes freedom of political belief and freedom of speech.
Communism is a political belief that the means of production should be controlled by the people/government. In the 20th century Communist countries did NOT have freedom of political belief and freedom of speech. They claimed to have democracy - inasmuch as they had elections and everybody had a vote - but the only party allowed to stand in the elections was the Communist Party, so it wasn't 'democracy' as you or I would recognise it.
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Posted 04 December 2008 - 09:15 PM
In our country, you've got 3 main parties - Conservative, Labour and Liberal.
I think - of 646 seats - in the current parliament the figures stand as
LABOUR 356
CONSERVATIVE 198
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 62
OTHER 30
The thing to notice is that - if you add Conservative, Liberal and Other together (290) - they don't together add up to as many as Labour. This is called a majority government - Labour has so many MPs that it has a majority of the MPs.
This makes it really easy to form and run a government. The Labour party leader becomes the Prime Minister, ot takes ALL the ministerial posts, itproposes laws, and then it votes them through.
The other parties are called 'her Majesty's Opposition' - all they can do is oppose and (unless something REALLY goes wrong) they never win in Parliament. All they can do is oppose well, and hope that at the next election the electorate will elect them.
What might surprise you is the %age of the vote that each party got. Given the number of seats, what would you guess?
In fact, the actual results was Labour 36%, Conservative 33% and LibDem 23% - although Labour only had a 3% advantage in the vote, it gained 158 seats more than the Conservatives, and an absolute majority.
This is the result of Britain's 'first-past-the-post system'. We have consistutencies, which elect ONE MP, elected by a majority vote in that constitutency. Of course, because Labour were popular at the time of the election, they tended to win in most constituencies, they won most of the seats. Perhaps it will be the Conservatives next time. Whatever, our system tends to deliver majority governments.
(I happen to believe that this is a GOOD system, therefore; others - especially the LibDems, for obvious reasons - disgree)
Not all democracies, however, have 'first-past-the-post' systems One alternative system - as they had in inter-war Germany - is proportional representation. By this system, you don't have elections by constituency, electing one MP, by you have elections by region, electing a large number of MPs. Each party dpesn't put forward an individual candidate, but a LIST of candidates. After the votes have been cast, the region sends delegates to Parliament in proportion to the number of votes cast.
If Britain had had a PR system in 2005, Parliament would have looked like this:
LABOUR 216
CONSERVATIVE 197
LIBDEM 151
OTHER 92
(If you look at this page, you will find a table of how things turned out in the elections in Weimar Germany, which had a PR system.)
But who could form a government?
Not ONE of the parties would have been strong enough to get a majority in Parliament.
To form a government, the Labour Party would have to form a joint government with one of the other parties. If there had been 113 'Other' not 92, it would even perhaps have been able to join with them to freeze out both Liberals and Conservatives, but it can't do that. But there are only 92 'others', so the Labour Party would perhaps have done a deal with the Liberals. Of course, there would be a price. Labour would have to agree to drop some of the policies which the Liberals disgareed with. There would have to be Liberals in the government - there would be Liberal ministers.
And of course, if the Liberal and Conservatives got together, they could form the government, and freeze out the Labour!
When you are getting 'joint governments' formed like this, the alliance of parties is called a COALITION.
One of the most famous COALITION governments is the 'Great Coalition' which Stresemann formed in Germany in 1924, which saved the Weimar Republic.
I think - of 646 seats - in the current parliament the figures stand as
LABOUR 356
CONSERVATIVE 198
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 62
OTHER 30
The thing to notice is that - if you add Conservative, Liberal and Other together (290) - they don't together add up to as many as Labour. This is called a majority government - Labour has so many MPs that it has a majority of the MPs.
This makes it really easy to form and run a government. The Labour party leader becomes the Prime Minister, ot takes ALL the ministerial posts, itproposes laws, and then it votes them through.
The other parties are called 'her Majesty's Opposition' - all they can do is oppose and (unless something REALLY goes wrong) they never win in Parliament. All they can do is oppose well, and hope that at the next election the electorate will elect them.
What might surprise you is the %age of the vote that each party got. Given the number of seats, what would you guess?
In fact, the actual results was Labour 36%, Conservative 33% and LibDem 23% - although Labour only had a 3% advantage in the vote, it gained 158 seats more than the Conservatives, and an absolute majority.
This is the result of Britain's 'first-past-the-post system'. We have consistutencies, which elect ONE MP, elected by a majority vote in that constitutency. Of course, because Labour were popular at the time of the election, they tended to win in most constituencies, they won most of the seats. Perhaps it will be the Conservatives next time. Whatever, our system tends to deliver majority governments.
(I happen to believe that this is a GOOD system, therefore; others - especially the LibDems, for obvious reasons - disgree)
Not all democracies, however, have 'first-past-the-post' systems One alternative system - as they had in inter-war Germany - is proportional representation. By this system, you don't have elections by constituency, electing one MP, by you have elections by region, electing a large number of MPs. Each party dpesn't put forward an individual candidate, but a LIST of candidates. After the votes have been cast, the region sends delegates to Parliament in proportion to the number of votes cast.
If Britain had had a PR system in 2005, Parliament would have looked like this:
LABOUR 216
CONSERVATIVE 197
LIBDEM 151
OTHER 92
(If you look at this page, you will find a table of how things turned out in the elections in Weimar Germany, which had a PR system.)
But who could form a government?
Not ONE of the parties would have been strong enough to get a majority in Parliament.
To form a government, the Labour Party would have to form a joint government with one of the other parties. If there had been 113 'Other' not 92, it would even perhaps have been able to join with them to freeze out both Liberals and Conservatives, but it can't do that. But there are only 92 'others', so the Labour Party would perhaps have done a deal with the Liberals. Of course, there would be a price. Labour would have to agree to drop some of the policies which the Liberals disgareed with. There would have to be Liberals in the government - there would be Liberal ministers.
And of course, if the Liberal and Conservatives got together, they could form the government, and freeze out the Labour!
When you are getting 'joint governments' formed like this, the alliance of parties is called a COALITION.
One of the most famous COALITION governments is the 'Great Coalition' which Stresemann formed in Germany in 1924, which saved the Weimar Republic.
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 01:16 PM
First, Sarah, please remember to say please - everyone does on this forum
Secondly you will see a picture of the Weimar Constitution towards the bottom of this page.
http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar2.htm.
Thirdly, as you revise, have you not come across the revision diaries on www.johndclare.net
If you look here - http://www.johndclare.net/E_Diary.htm - you will find a really easy set of revision notes (there is a harder set here).
These will really help your revision if you use them correctly.
Secondly you will see a picture of the Weimar Constitution towards the bottom of this page.
http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar2.htm.
Thirdly, as you revise, have you not come across the revision diaries on www.johndclare.net
If you look here - http://www.johndclare.net/E_Diary.htm - you will find a really easy set of revision notes (there is a harder set here).
These will really help your revision if you use them correctly.
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