(1) Overlapped topics for Political science and Constitutional law

[Fatima Rahim]

AREAS TO COVER
POL SCIENCE+ CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• Comparison of Senate of America and Pakistan
• Check and balance of American Constitution
• Power of president
• Election
• removal of the president of USA.
• Role of Supreme court in Evolution of American Constitution
• Role of Geoge Bush
• Senate- powerful upper house-
• Functions of senate
• Judicial review and its impact on decision making
• Gerrymandering
• Senatorial Courtesy
• anti-concentration of power (SEPERATION OF POWERS)
• methods of amendment to the American Constitution
• importance of conventions in English Constitution
• in Marbury Vs Madison (1803) case by the United State's Supreme Court
• strengths of US Constitution
• powers of superior courts in the constitution of USA
• Committee System in the USA.
• ‘Due Process of Law’
• committee system in Westminister parliament and compare it with the system in united states of America.
• Parliamentary Sovereignty
• Judicial Activism for the enforcement of Bill of Rights in American Legal System

UK

• Magna Carta
• Ministerial Responsibility
• Role of Political parties in Formulating Public Opinion in foreign policy
• Law making process
• fundamental Principles of British Constitution
• Nature, Powers (Cabinet Dictatorship) and functions of the British Cabinet.
• Parliamentary Sovereignty, its limitation and its historical context
• Abolishment of Kingship – Evolution of Monarchy
• Administrative Law in England
• British Conventions
• Parliament Act of 1911 as amended in 1948
• source of British Constitution
• Rule of Law’ in United Kingdom
• House of Lords
(House of Lords has lost its utility and importance long ago,therefore it should either be abolished or reformed. Examine the statement in the light of the discussions taken place in united kingdom on the topic during last two decades and also give your own views on the subject.)
• powers of British Prime Minister
• advantages and disadvantages of unwritten constitution
• British Supreme Court strike down the laws which are repugnant to the provisions of the British Constitution
• importance of conventions in the British political system.

France

• powers of the French President – 5th republic
• centralized political system
• main features of the French political system
• features of the judicial system
• local government functions in France
• Election of President
• downfall of Fourth French Republic
• role of political parties in the post 1958 political system
• Composition, Powers and Position of the French National Assembly
• restrictions the French Constitution puts on the parliamentary sovereignty
• Bonapartism
• system of Droit Administrating in France.
• relation between parliament and the government in France.

RUSSIA

• Democratic centralism
• Factors for disintegration of S.U
• Powers of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR
• nature of federation in former USSR
• Powers and functions of supreme soviet
• rights conferred upon the citizens in the Constitution of former USSR?
• complicated issue of nationalities in the former USSR solved by the Stalin Constitution
• powers and functions of Soviet President (Article-83)
• structure of Supreme court of Russian Federation
• salient features of the constitutions of the former soviet Union and the present day Russian Federation.
• The Russian Federation is a Federation with a highly centralized administration
• procedures of constitutional amendment
• of enforcement of fundamental rights