Passport To Parliament

Let's make a match! Using the fun resource, scholars play a game to learn about parliamentary law. Working together, they match notecards containing questions and matching answers about the topic, and then discuss their answers with...

Every political system has advantages and disadvantages. To gain an understanding of these differences, groups investigate the political system of another country—oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorship, parliamentary—and prepare a...

What constitutes an effective apology? After considering a series of scenarios, class members develop criteria for an effective apology and then use these indicators to evaluate Canada's Prime Minister Harper's apology to former...

Compares the parliamentary system of government to that of the United States.

Activity in which students read and write about the development of democratic ideas in Medieval England, then in small groups, compare U.K. Parliamentary system to U.S. Presidential system.

Characteristics of elections in the British parliamentary system are described. These differ from the system in the United States.

Discusses how the structure of Congress differs from the British parliamentary system.

Late Canadian Senator Eugene A. Forsey left a public legacy to all Canadians including this website hosted by the Parliament of Canada. In this article, he introduces important legal principles that underpin the Canadian court system,...

Compares Congress and the three equally powerful branches of the United States government to the British Parliament and its House of Commons.

Parliamentary governments differ from the American system of government. It is led by a prime minister and is expected to reflect the will of the people.