The parliament is made up of the elected House of Commons and the appointed House of Lords. There are 350 members of the House of Commons, known as Parliamentary Commoners, who are elected from their various constituencies across the counties of Rhodesia. Each Parliamentary Commoner represents a base of 95,455 who elect them into power, with a single transferable vote system used to select the most proportionally representative members of the county. In this way, there are no set constituencies outside of the counties themselves, with each county receiving one Parliamentary Commoner according to the numbers of groups of 95,455 people inside each constituency. Thus, the voting system of Rhodesia is the most accurate according to the number of people voting in favour of a party, making the p
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| - The parliament is made up of the elected House of Commons and the appointed House of Lords. There are 350 members of the House of Commons, known as Parliamentary Commoners, who are elected from their various constituencies across the counties of Rhodesia. Each Parliamentary Commoner represents a base of 95,455 who elect them into power, with a single transferable vote system used to select the most proportionally representative members of the county. In this way, there are no set constituencies outside of the counties themselves, with each county receiving one Parliamentary Commoner according to the numbers of groups of 95,455 people inside each constituency. Thus, the voting system of Rhodesia is the most accurate according to the number of people voting in favour of a party, making the partisan system integral to the elections process of the country. The House of Lords is unelected, with its 2,782 unpaid members consisting of the various Barons, Earls, and Dukes created by the Monarch or past Monarchs and approved by the Parliament with each inheritance of the specific title. The House of Lords has no real legislative power, although it can delay bills and encourage further revision when passed up from the lower House of Commons. The Monarch presides directly over the House of Lords, whereas the Governor General presides over the House of Commons. Although officially bicameral, parliamentary power is primarily vested within the House of Commons, which is the only chamber of the parliament with the authority to create and amend laws. Although bills must be passed to and approved by the House of Lords, the unelected chamber does not have the ability to amend or reject bills, and thus, the House of Lords can only encourage revision and delay the bill for this revision to occur. Should the House of Lords delay the bill for too long, it reverts back to the House of Commons, and if the bill is delayed after a third time of reversion, it bypasses the House of Lords and is sent directly to the Monarch. While most bills are passed by the House of Lords after reaching a majority in the House of Commons, several, relating directly to the social class system of Rhodesia itself, have sometimes had to have been bypassed to the monarchy directly. Once a bill is passed by the parliament, the monarch may grant it royal assent, and, although the monarch reserves the right to deny a bill, there has been no case of the monarch doing so since the 1901 restoration of parliament. The House of Commons relies entirely upon a partisan system to create the government, while in the House of Lords political parties are not allowed. As of the 2010 Rhodesia general elections, the Social Democrats have retained a supermajority in parliament of 217 seats (62%) since their first majority in 1935. Although at times coalition governments have been formed, the Social Democrats have always been the lead party in such coalitions, and there has never been a parliament where the Prime Minister has not been a Social Democrat since 1935. The second largest party is the Centre Party which holds 74 seats (21.14%). The following minor parties exist within the parliament; the Co-operative Party with 28 seats (8%), the Royalist Party with 23 seats (6.57%), and the Green Party with 8 seats (2.29%).
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