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The traditional conservative view of human nature is essentially pessimistic. Conservatives believe humans are imperfect. This can be broken down into three distinct aspects. Firstly, humans are psychologica...

In the United Kingdom, the three branches of government are the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. The executive is the central government, made up of the Prime Minister and their cabinet. The leg...

Joining a political party this may cover a range of participative methods from commenting on policy to attending party conferences or simply being a donor or fund raiser. Joining a pressure group, again this...

Sovereignty means legal supremacy. So parliamentary sovereignty is a legal theory which stipulates that the supreme law-making authority in the UK is the Westminiter Parliament. This is evident by three prop...

This piece will cover three key disadvantages with the proportional representation (PR) form of voting. The first of these is to point out that PR elects weak governments. The nature of PR is that every vote...