Checks And Balances (Indy)

[albaqwerty]

The US has 2 legislative bodies, as does the UK (we do, don't we? The HoC and HofLords) Presumably the majority of democratic countries does otherwise it would be a dictatorship surely?

My question is purely hypothetical as I'm wondering what plans would the SNP have for similar if (heaven and any sane person, forbid) they get the independence they so crave.

Might just ask when I'm at polling station on Thursday, but I guess they will not be an answer.

[Mamyalynne]

I can find this from back in 2013 around the time of the referendum but admit I haven't looked hard.

//Little is said about institutional arrangements. One question that will inevitably arise in the referendum campaign is whether there would be any proposals to make the Scottish Parliament bicameral or at least to institute some model of review body to assess and scrutinise draft legislation.//

Things may have been discussed since.

[albaqwerty]

Thank you kindly for having a look-see Mamya, greatly appreciated.
No doubt one of those things which may appear clearer if there ever will be a referendum.

[Mamyalynne]

It must surely have come in for some consideration.

You'll get better brains than mine on it in the morning.

[KARL]

Bicameral systems are not the only formula but they are more "the done thing". At least one example of a single chamber parliament exists (that I am aware of) and the country in question does a lot better than the UK in socio-economic comparisons. Scotland will obviously make their own decision(s) over time if/when they become independent. Wholesale maintenance and/or copying of the UK's systems would to at least some degree put in question the utility/advantage of independence but it would also be a recipe for (permanently ?) remaining as backward as the UK because it is the UK's thinking and actions which dictate/cause the backwardness.

[Old_Geezer]

I think the claim that the UK is backward probably needs justifying.

I note you didn't name the single chamber example. It seems to me that such a system could result in controversial acts being passed more easily. I'm wondering how their citizens fare.