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Disadvantages of the legislative process

Peter Blood explains this important topic and provides exam tips

This ‘Examination focus’ is relevant to AQA AS Unit 1, OCR AS Unit G151 and WJEC LA1.

One of the great strengths of the legislative process is its capacity to give effect to the democratic process. Almost all statutes are government statutes, meaning that when they are first introduced to Parliament as bills, they are sponsored by the government of the day. That government will have been elected on a manifesto and, at least in so far as the statutes that the government sponsors are a reflection of that manifesto, the legislative process can be said to give effect to the will of the people as reflected in the ballot box.

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