Constitutional Reform
This is the Supreme Law of Jamaica
The Constitution
This system of governance has a monarch as the head of state
Monarchy
This type of president is the head of state and holds ceremonial duties.
Non Executive President
This person is Jamaica's Head of State
King Charles III
This document gives legal effect to the Constitution and was approved by Her Majesty on the advice of her privy council.
Order in Council
This is system of governance where a country is controlled absolutely by one person who is not a king or queen.
Dictatorship
The United States president is what type of president
Executive President
What is Jamaica's governance system?
Constitutional Monarchy
This is a direct vote by the electorate
Referendum
In this republic, the head of government and head of state is the same person.
Presidential Republic
This type of president is the head of state and is responsible for the day to day governance of the country.
Executive President
Name two members of the Constitutional Reform Committee
Honourable Marlene Malahoo Forte, KC, JP, MP (Chairman) Ambassador Rocky Meade, CD, JP, PhD (Co-Chairman – Permanent Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister) Senator Ransford Braham, CD, KC (Government Senator) ▪ Mr Anthony Hylton, CD, MP (Parliamentary Opposition – House of Representatives) ▪ Senator Donna Scott-Mottley (Parliamentary Opposition – Senate) ▪ Mr Hugh Small, KC (Consultant Counsel and Nominee of the Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition) ▪ Dr the Hon. Lloyd Barnett, OJ (National Constitutional Law Expert) ▪ Mrs Laleta Davis-Mattis, CD, JP (National Council of Reparations) ▪ Dr Elaine McCarthy (Chairman – Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches) ▪ Dr David Henry (Wider Society – Faith-Based) ▪ Dr Nadeen Spence (Civil Society – Social and Political Commentator) ▪ Mr Sujae Boswell (Youth Advisor) via video link ▪ Professor Richard Albert (International Constitutional Law Expert – University of Texas at Austin) ▪ Dr Derrick McKoy, CD, KC (Attorney General of Jamaica) ▪ Senator Hon. Thomas Tavares-Finson, OJ, CD (President of the Senate and Commissioner of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica)
To alter ordinarily entrenched provisions, you need what?
2/3 majority vote in both Houses of Parliament
This commonwealth country has a president, and a prime minister who is the president's principal assistant.
Guyana
This country, found far north, above the red, white and blue, has what system of governance?
constitutional monarchy/parliamentary democracy
What is a constitutional monarchy
A Constitutional Monarchy is a form of government in which a country has a monarch as the ceremonial and symbolic head of state, whose powers and authority are limited by a constitution.
This section of the constitution grants executive authority in the Monarch.
Section 68
Barbados, Singapore, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Switzerland are all examples of a ____________ republic
Parliamentary
This person is the president of Barbados.
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason FB GCMG DA SC
What is a Republic?
A republic is a form of government in which the power is held by the people, but instead of ruling directly, the people elect representatives who represent them and their interests. Two of the most common types of republics are Presidential and Parliamentary Republics.