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The parliamentary government includes a board of members and are chosen by the citizens and the prime minister plays a large role in representing Singapore in the executive committee while a presidential government (such as the U.S) has a single president as the main leader of the country.

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- The speaker of parliament
- The Cabinet
- Members of Parliament (e.g. MPs, NCMPs, NMPs)
- Legislative, Executive, Judiciary

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The members of parliament are MPs, NCMPs, NMPs.
The speaker of the parliament do not engage in debates but can be for or against a motion.
The ruling party must have won the majority of the seats.
The cabinet comprises of pm, deputy pm, and other ministers.

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The parliament is made up of 3 organs of state:
1. Legislature - makes laws; President + parliament (Speaker, Cabinet, MPs, NCMPs, NMPs)
2. Judiciary - inteprets + applies laws; Supreme Court (High Court, Court of Appeal), State Courts, Family Justice Courts
3. Executive - implements laws

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we know that the parliamentary structure is made up of the cabinet led by the prime minster, deputy prime ministers and ministers for the 16 ministries :) It is also made up of the speaker of the elected members of parliment, the non-constituency MPs and the nominated MPs

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The government structure consists of a speaker, the ruling party's members of parliament, the opposition party's members of parliament, the prime minister and cabinet, as well as the opposition party's leadership. The limitations of our current govt. structure is the lack of balance as most members of parliament are from PAP which is the ruling party. A strength of our govt. structure is the unicameral system, which allows the production of laws more efficient, compared to a bicameral system.

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The parliamentary structure is adapted from  the UK Westminster style. It consists of
- Legislative (parliment)
- Judiciary (court judges)
- Executive (president, prime minister, etc)
None of these branches have absolute power, and play equal roles in contributing to the making and approving of the laws and policies in Singapore.

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- there is an opposition and a ruling party
- the ruling party must win majority of the seats
- the candidate must garner the most votes to win the seat in the constituency
- we are a democratic country, citizens get to elect our government

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It makes up the Government of Singapore alongside the president of Singapore and helps with the making of the laws by passing or vetoing bills.

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there are 3 branches:
- executive: consists of president, prime minister and other high ranking ministers that pass bills
- legislative: parliment who are help make policies
- judiciary: enforce laws
the branches will keep each other in check so that no branch will have absolute power

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It consists of the president, prime minister, ministers and GRCs. PAP is the pre-dominant ruling government in Singapore's history and they occupy the most seats in parliament.

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- there are different ministries in charge of different areas like education/defence
- they work together to formulate and implement government policies in such areas

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we are dying to know whether there is professional conflict between the ruling party and the opposition party,
we would also like to know how different perspectives come to an agreement

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- How is the power of each branch of parliament regulated? Who has the most say and who has the least say?
- Does the parliament focus mostly on internal affairs? What about external affairs? Which branch of the parliament is in charge of addressing and negotiating external affairs and foreign relations?
- Is our governmental structure effective and progressive? Does it live up to the expectations of the people?

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- does SG politics have that big of an influence on the community compared to presidential governments such as the US
- how are the internal and external affairs divided in SG politics
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- how much say the MPs, NCMPs and NMPs have in the laws of SG
- which positions have the highest power next to the president

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I want to learn more about the political disagreements within the parliament members. I also want to learn more about how the parliament members manage to keep check of corruption.

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I want to know whether the public have the right to change the format of the government. (how the parliament has the ruling and opposition party on 2 sides.)

I want to know whether there had been any severe cases of fighting and arguing in the parliment, such that they had to bring the public to vote on the problem

I want to know whether there had been cases of corruption, and double agents within the parliment.

I want to know whether presidents/prime ministers/DPMs of other countries ever gotten into a fight with out country's presidents, etc.

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What are the rights of the president and the parliament? What is the power balance? What measures are there to prevent corruption?

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how does the parliament decide which ministers does what [how they delegate]

is there a systematic way in governing Singapore?

we also want to know what exactly the president does.

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- I want to know how the respective ministers are chosen for their respective ministries
-  I also want to learn about what type of disagreements the parliament might have that could have led to a greater impact on singapore

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We want to know what judiciary legislative and executive committees do and what the different members of parliament do.

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We would like to know how the overwhelming number of positions held by the ruling party could affect our political and justice system, and if that party could possibly lose its place as the ruling party.