External Influences on the Australian P&L system

Australia's system of responsible parliamentary government was taken from which country?

• Britain

• The United States

• Canada

• Switzerland

Australia's method of altering our Constitution through a referendum was influenced by which nation?

• Britain

• the United States

• Canada

• Switzerland

The most influential factor from the United States that Australia took from them and integrated into our political and legal system was:

• A bicameral parliament

• the separation of powers

• federalism

• a Constitutional court

The merging of the UK Westminster system and America's federal system into a hybrid government is known as:

• The Washing machine government

• The Washminster mutation

• A Britamerica system

• Canada

Historically, which is NOT a way that Canada is similar to Australia?

• It began as a British dominion

• It gained its independence from Britain through negotiation, not conflict

• It gained its independence from Britain through conflict, not negotiation

• It borrowed its ideas from other countries when creating its own government

The proof that a hybrid system of government could work was that:

• Canada's hybrid written Constitution did not have any typos in it

• Canada's hybrid government had been in operation for 32 years before Australia federated

• Both the USA and the UK had effective forms of government

• Elements of two systems could easily co-exist in one governmental system

True OR False: the Canadian Parliament is more closely modelled on the British Parliament, rather than that of the United States.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The names of Canada's bicameral Parliament includes

• The House of Representatives and the Senate

• The House of Commons and the Senate

• The House of Commons and the House of Lords

• The House of Representatives and the House of Lords

The major difference between how Canada and Australia incorporated a system of FEDERALISM was:

• In AUS residual powers are given to the States but in CAN they are given to the central government

• In AUS and CAN taxation is a concurrent power

• Both Constitutional Courts can disallow State laws

• In AUS our Parliament is the HoR & Senate but in CAN it is the House of Commons & Senate

A difference between the American and Australian political and legal systems is:

• Bicameral Parliament

• How laws are made

• Federalism

• How the head of state is selected