Learning Objectives

  • Understand social forces, struggle for power between king and church, and whatever.
  • Legislatures aren’t all the same—deal with it.
  • If presidential = independence, and parliamentary = expediency + efficiency, when must the train leave Boston if they are to meet in Chicago?
  • Alliances get cobbled together to get things done in legislatures and control them and something.
  • Authoritarian regimes use legislatures to make themselves credible.
  • Always wear clean underwear, just in case you get hit by a bus and are hauled off to the hospital.