New Zealand is one of the countries in the world that has unwritten consititution and it is vital because it is the base of a government on how to govern a country based on it. Having a written constitution in New Zealand will give New Zealanders more access about certain documents on the consitution itself. On the other hand, if New Zealand continuously having an unwritten constitution, the citizen may not have knowledge on it due to limited access on it. This essay will clarify on constitution and what is a written constitution. This essay also covers the need to include the Constitution Act 1986, the Public Finance Act 1989 and the Arms Act 1983 and removing the Public Sector Act 1988 from it.
Constitution is the basic principles and laws of a nation, state or social groups that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the citizen (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, n.d). In other words, it is a set of guidelines for a government to exercise the given power.
New Zealand is currently practicing democracy system, a system where the powers are vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representations such as public elections (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, n.d). Hence, parliamentary elections must be done every three years to elect new members of Parliament (MPs). On 1986, the formation of Constitution Act 1986 make UK completely powerless to legislate for New Zealand as the residual
Constitution ~ a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
A constitution is the fundamental principles of government in a nation, either implied in its laws, institutions, and customs, or embodied in one fundamental document. The U.S. Constitution was completed on September 17, 1789 and has served as a model for the constitutions of many other nations. The constitution of the United States of America is the oldest written national constitution in use and consists of twenty-seven amendments.
A constitution is the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation is governed. Our founding fathers created the US Constitution to
are two countries that are very similar but not quite the same. The U.S. is a democracy, but New Zealand is a Parliament. These are two very similar types of government but a Parliament takes some aspects from a monarchy and combine them with some from a democracy. New Zealand does not have a president, they have a prime minister. In the U.S. citizens vote for a president. But in New Zealand they vote for the members of the Parliament, and the legislative branch of the Parliament assigns a prime minister. New Zealand also does not have states. They did used to have provinces, but they scraped in the provincial system in the late
1. A constitution is a charter that both establishes a government and delineates fundamental rights and obligations of that government and of individuals who fall within the territory covered by the constitution. The Constitution of the U.S. provided for a federal union of the states and a federal government divided into three branches (legislative, judicial, and executive) to operate the union. The fundamental rights of the Constitution are known as the Ten Amendments, which make up the Bill of Rights. The Constitution gives the government limited power and describes what they can and cannot do, how to govern the legal system, and give rights to citizens.
The Constitution of the United States, signed September 17, 1787, is the basis of all government in the United States. It provides the general setup of the government through a system of checks and balances, the powers of each individual branch, and the standards to which the government should adhere. The US Constitution creates a blanket under which states
Two most important potential changes to NZ’s political environment that may influence our businesses and development of our society during the next decade will be a change of government and voting rights for prisoners, each of which is analysed in the following paragraphs.
Political ideologies are the beliefs, morals and ethics held on what is the optimum way of governing a country (Jost, Federico, & Napier, 2009). They have long guided the elected governments behaviour, particularly in effect to Social Policy decisions; determining what policy initiatives will be elected and what is the best way of implementing such policies. New Zealand has had various political ideologies brought in by different governments; such as Social Democracy, Social Liberalism, Neo liberalism, Neo Conservatism and Conservatism. For the basis of this Essay, the focus will be on two of the most significant influences; Social Democracy and Conservatism. Both ideologies have had period 's of dominance in New Zealand 's Social policy history where they have impacted the general functioning of society. Their view of the state, and general morals have been strongly reflected in the policy initiatives there exponents have brought in. For Social Democracy, it being the 1938 Social Security Act and the various implementations of Keynesian Economic Management in the 1940s and 1980s; and for Conservatism, the Pensions for miners and returned servicemen, and the introduction of private prisons. The both having considerable impact not only on New Zealand society but the development of more progressive forms of political ideology. It will be argued that the resulting policies from the Social Democracy and Conservatism ideologies most notable influence is
A constitution is a set of rules that establish duties and functions of the government and defines the basic principles to which society must conform. In this essay I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an unwritten constitution and show that I agree with this statement.
The design of a constitution of any country will impact their politics and society. The impact that it has depends on say, whether that country has a democratic regime or an authoritarian regime and how the institutions that are stated in the constitution are organised for example the government, the legislature, the electoral system, the party system and so on. This piece of academic writing will demonstrate how.
2) I will be talking about James Busby who played a major role in making New Zealand’s independency possible. James Busby was born in Scotland on the 7th of February 1802. He studied viticulture in France. After that he moved to Australia. After staying there for a couple of years, Busby moved with his family to New Zealand after presenting his viticulture journals that he published and were considered as New Zealand memoir. That granted him an appointment with the Colonial Office after he presented his work. Then Busty was appointed on March 1832 a New Zealand British Resident. He arrived to the Bay of Islands on May 1833 and then settled in Waitangi. Busby’s major purpose was to manage and look after the
Women make up 51% of the New Zealand population, however, women in New Zealand parliament only make up just over 30% in parliament (2014). For women to be represented in parliament, it means that women need to be seen as a ‘norm’ in government, and therefore all positions of power. This under-representation can be linked to factors such as the environment and the culture of the New Zealand parliament and political parties. It is important to note that women are not a homogenous group; and we have to include ethnicity and class, which links into opportunity. This gender gap in parliament has caused societal issues to be silenced and minority groups to be left out of decision making and therefore society.
The narrative of the New Zealand feature film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, follows the lives of three vampires, Viago, Deacon and Vladislav as they struggle to try to cope with the complexities of modern life. Living in a flat in Wellington, these modern day vampires are faced with the mundanities of everyday life, and things such as paying rent, trying to get into nightclubs and overcoming flatmate conflicts prove to be extremely difficult. What We Do in the Shadows is unique in that it combines parody and cinematography, while also using a mixture of two genres, vampire and mockumentary, to comment on contemporary social formations and to challenge traditional cultural myths. These elements of the film have been used to ensure the portrayal of the horrific as mundane and ordinary.
There are currently 53 countries a part of the commonwealth nations. Along with being a commonwealth country, New Zealand is a commonwealth realm (there are currently 16 commonwealth realms). Now in order to be a commonwealth realm, the nation must have the Monarch (currently, Queen Elizabeth II is the reigning monarch) as its head of state. Similarly to the how a commonwealth country works, a commonwealth realm is also voluntary and they may choose to leave at any given time. However, with being a commonwealth realm, New Zealand does not have to exchange ambassadors with other commonwealth members. They do nevertheless maintain diplomatic relations with other commonwealth members, along with having other benefits when traveling to other commonwealth realms. In addition, they also work with the monarchy by maintaining a governor-general in each realm, which is the crown’s personal representative in the commonwealth realm.
Content of article is with major attention for the better scope that entrepreneur in New Zealand. Conversation with Mr. Vishal, who happens to be a hospitality entrepreneur; about the entrepreneurship prospects in the country and the variety of factors that are to be measured. This segment is taken by him so as to make a beginning and enlarge his business in Hospitality industry. The reason which works to be the driving force for his to move ahead in this direction is the high demand that the sector has developed in the recent couple of years. New Zealand is now amongst the fastest developing economies which had directly made an impact on its Hospitality and tourism trade in a positive sequence. Growing demand has taken the needs and desires of many projects to get started in the fastest possible manner. Examples from this side are making high towered buildings or hotels in order to make a sound tourism promotion because New Zealand is considered to be amongst the most popular tourist destinations which can boast of its, lakes, scenic beauty, adventure activities and many other projects of similar nature.