Mechanisms governing how a government is formed, how the executive and legislature relate structurally, and how ordinary lawmaking proceeds, including Coalition Formation, Coalition Government, Caretaker Government, Dissolution of Parliament, Head of State and Head of Government, Bicameralism and the Legislative Process. Belongs here: a structural mechanism of how a government comes together or how the executive and legislative branches are organized relative to each other. Does not belong here: a mechanism whose purpose is oversight or removal of an existing government, grouped under Checks, Balances and Institutional Oversight.
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1. Motion of no confidence (Wikipedia)
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The first motion of no confidence against an entire government occurred in March 1782 when, following news of the British defeat at Yorktown in the American Revolutionary War the previous October, the Parliament of Great Britain voted that it 'can no longer repose confidence in the present ministers'.
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