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Chapter 19 - Relations with the executive government
In any system of
government conducted by elected representatives of the people, the
relationship between the representative assembly holding the legislative power
and the holders of the executive power is of great significance. In a
parliamentary system, in which the executive is formed out of the legislative
assembly, the relationship is of greater significance. In such a system the
executive, the ministry, is supposed to be scrutinised and controlled by the
legislature. In practice, in
most systems inherited from the United Kingdom, the ministry has come to control the lower house of
the legislature through control of disciplined and hierarchical parties. In
this situation, as has been observed in Chapter 1, the role of a second chamber
like the Senate is crucial, and its relationship with the executive must, if it
can, compensate for the ministerial dominance of the lower house.
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