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(C) Enrichment and Exploration

to

(1) "The passage of motions, bills or amendments

government bills introduced by individual members of the Legislative Council shall require а simple majority vote of each of the two groups of members present: members returned by functional constituencies and those returned by

by geographical constitutencies through direct elections and by the Committee."

Election

(The Basic Law of the HKSAR, April 1990, P.60)

What are

the

the by

advantages or disadvantages for bills introduced by individual members of the Legislative Council to 'require a simple majority vote of each of two groups of members present : members returned

constituencies and those returned by constituencies'?

functional geographical

(a) Ask the students to conduct forum to express their views on the rationale of this voting arrangement.

(2) The

poet Alexander Pope set out that : "For forms of

let government

fools contest; whatever is best administered, is best." To what extent do you agree with the above saying with regard to the political of the HKSAR?

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