COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LAW-MAKING PROCESS IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Prince-Godfrey Omola Godfrey II , James Agebes Ojobo (PhD) and Charlie E. Nwekeaku (PhD)
Volume 9 Issue 2
Abstract
The concept of law making existed before the parliamentary system the way it’s known today; it all began in 11th century England. Both the United States Congress and the Nigerian National Assembly were established to be a problem-solving parliament that will make laws for peace, order and good government and to shape the behaviour of politicians. A parliament where bills can go through all its processes of legislation and be passed into law in one day is very dangerous, to say the least. The objective of the study is to examine the law-making process as it is operated in the United States of America and Nigeria and the similarities and differences of the law-making process between the United State Congress and the Nigeria National Assembly were established. The neo-institutional theory is adopted as the theoretical framework and the paper used the case study method of research and utilised content analysis method to analyse the data obtained for this study. The paper found that the law-making process between the United State House of Representatives and United State Senate is very different, both have different rules. The paper concludes that the United State Congress is very independent and as such not subject to manipulation. The paper recommends that the National Assembly members should become policy experts who initiate, develop and access bills as the engine for legislative ideas. Keywords: Legislative Process, Parliament, Constitution, House Rules, legislative Committee.
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