Learn Advanced Level History For Increase Knowledge

1. Learn Advanced Level History For Increase Knowledge We are confident you'll enjoy teaching our Advanced Level History specifications and that it will enable your students to fulfil their potential. History is a fascinating and challenging subject, well known for encouraging higher-level critical thinking skills such as developing logical and sustained arguments. Political Ideas Political ideas are found in every section of British Politics. The most common political ideas in British politicsare: historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 27 Mar 2015. 21 Aug 2019. Political ideas are found in every section of British Politics. The most common political ideas in British politicsare: government democracy accountability authority consensus politics conservatism liberalism radicalism socialism historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 27 Mar 2015. 21 Aug 2019. Political ideas are found in every section of British Politics. The most common political ideas in British politicsare: government democracy accountability

2. authority consensus politics conservatism liberalism radicalism socialism Government This is the formal institutional structure and processes of a society by which policies are developed and implemented in the form of law, binding on all. The government has legislative (law making), executive (law enforcing) and judicial (law interpreting) functions, with decision power exercised by a majority within Parliament. Government usually operates under the restrictive nature of a constitution whether it be written or not. A constitution often puts limitations on government, telling the incumbent government what it can do but, more importantly, what it cannot do. Within Britain, the Law Lords in the House of Lords have the final say in interpreting our unwritten constitution though the European Courts are likely to play a more increased role in this aspect as Europe becomes more integrated. The word “government” refers to the party in power in the House of Commons and also to individuals who have specific power within certain fields – such as the government of transport, the government of education etc. Another aspect of government in a democracy is that everybody accepts what a democratically elected government wishes to introduce. As a majority of the electorate voted in the government, it is accepted convention that its policies are accepted by the people on whose behalf they run the country. For the period of time the government is in power, the way the country is run is effectively handed over to the government by the people. In recent years, there have been successful challenges to government policy outside of the law courts : the Poll Tax was abandoned because of actual physical challenges to it by street demonstrations; the issue of bannig fox hunting in Britain, may or may not be pushed through because of street demonstrations. There has been a trend in recent years for unpopular bills to be challenged by the public – one could argue that this is pure democracy if the number of people involved represented a majority of the people in the country who believed that the government had got it wrong. However, on major issues, such as the declaration of war, the introduction of a major foreign initiative etc., the public is not involved in the final decision. That is made by the government in its capacity as the government elected by the people with its power vested in it by the nature of democracy that traditionally exists within Britain i.e. decisions are made on our behalf by those elected into power by the electorate.

3. In recent years, these functions have become rather blurred because of the input from the European Unionand the European Court of Human Rights. A recent example was the decision by the European Court to condemn as illegal the sentence of the two youths who murdered Jamie Bulger, the Liverpool boy. The youths were to be held at “Her Majesty’s Pleasure” a decision made by the then Home Secretary, the Tory Michael Howard. This was declared to be illegal by the European Law Lords who stated that the youths could not have received a fair trial because of all the media coverage of the murder and that the failure to specify the number of years in prison denied the youths their basic human rights. The Court also declared that only a member of the judiciary could pass a sentence and that this was out of the remit of the Home Secretary. In this example, public support was with the government but it had to adhere to the decision of Europe’s highest court of law. Within Britain, the government has the right to levy taxes, declare war, initiate both foreign and domestic policies, control the military etc. How far these will be eroded in the future is difficult to determine. The pro-England nationalists claim that all these governmental rights will be lost to a federal Europe and that “Britain’s government” will cease to exist.