CHAPTER 7: MEETINGS 1. What are the types of meetings? (SAGE) a. Statutory Meeting - Applies to public company limited by shares and incorporation - Does not apply to public company by guarantee - S142 CA 1965 – Not less than one month and not more than 3 months to do statutory meeting from business commencement date - Its purpose to receive and consider the statutory reports of the company together with auditor’s report - The Statutory
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majoritarian electoral system. The United Kingdom electro system provides a majority seat to the party with a plurality of votes. This essay will discuss the majoritarian form of government in the United Kingdom and the reasons why the form of governance is referred to as majoritarian while as in the United States it is not recognized as majoritarian. The British system of government that is used in the United Kingdom mainly operates on the principle of straight majority rule. This system is geared towards
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be elected and to hold office. Women still, however, did not have the right to vote. Jeanette Rankin, the first woman elected into congress, was voted into congress before women received the right to vote. Rankin won her seat by promising to expand voting rights to women and to ban liquor. Rankin pushed for the passing of the 19th amendment, allowing women the right to
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Political participation are actions of private citizens seeking to influence to support government and politics. Participation involves voting, involvement in campaigning (canvassing), party membership and pressure group membership. Participation is sad to be in decline due to the low turnout since the 1950’s. There are trends of low turnout in the General elections for UK. In 1951 the turnout for the UK general elections was 82%, however this fell to 66% in the 2015 general elections. Voter
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However, apathy is a bad thing. Apathy is not only seen in voting, but also in various forms that require political participation, such as grassroots efforts and protests. The moment fifty percent of eligible voters stay at home on general election days, it means that the system of governance that gets to power has unequal representation. Politicians will benefit those who turned out to vote, and not those who remained
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the population is so high that it could take weeks to get an accurate number, while also keeping states such as New Jersey, New York, California, Texas, or Florida from dominating the entire popular vote. In agreement with my history professor, the system is imperfect, not broken, meaning it cannot be
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I believe that the current voting age of eighteen should be kept. I believe in this because usually people younger than eighteen do not really understand politics very well and are easily influenced by others votes. For example, a sixteen year old is usually influenced, politically, by their parents/gaurdians. There is also the posibility that, instead of rising the number of voting participants, lowering the age limit would cause the participant numbers to decrease drastically. Most eighteen
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Would the United States be a better country if more people voted? Why or why not? Voting in America is a responsibility. People will always speculate if we should go out and vote, people will always persuade people to go vote, but does it ever work? Just because we see celebrities like Diddy and Usher out telling us slogans to “Rock the Vote,” will it make me want to go vote? Answer is most likely not. As a black American, I get told over and over again that I should go vote because of what my ancestors
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comes to the world seeing them as a strong, democratic nation. Although, according to Merriam Webster, a democracy is defined as “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections” (Merriam Webster). A democracy is not strong, however, when a low
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to vote or choose to not vote? What impact does the high rate of political involvement and voting of Millennials have on our democracy? There are a lot of excuses that people give for not voting however, I will just touch on some of the current excuses that most Americans give: My vote will not count. I’m too busy to vote. Intimidated by the voting registration process. Feeling detached about voting. Voting lines too long. Do not like the two candidates that are running for the major political parties
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