Government


 * the goverment **

Type: Constitutional monarchy. Constitution: Unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice. Branches: //Executive//--monarch (head of state), prime minister (head of government), cabinet. //Legislative//--bicameral Parliament: House of Commons, House of Lords; Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, and Northern Ireland Assembly. //Judicial//--magistrates' courts, county courts, high courts, appellate courts, House of Lords. Subdivisions: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (municipalities, counties, and parliamentary constituencies). Political parties: Great Britain--Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats; also, in Scotland--Scottish National Party. Wales--Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales). Northern Ireland--Ulster Unionist Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Fein, Alliance Party, and other smaller parties. Suffrage: British subjects and citizens of other Commonwealth countries and the Irish Republic resident in the U.K., at
 * Government**