3 Functions of Parliament

1. Legislative: the law-making monopoly within its schedules (109; the procedure: 110–113 — bills in either House except finance bills (HoR only); security-force bills only as government bills; the NA's 15-day (finance) / 2-month (other) windows with the HoR's override bymajority of existing members; deadlocks to joint sittings (111(9)); the President's certification within 15 days, one-time return possible (113); ordinances the recess-legislation (114) — Unit 4);2. Financial: the money power — no tax or loan except by law (115); the consolidated fund and charged expenditures (116–118); the annual estimates laid before the joint sitting on 15Jestha (119); appropriation, supplementary, votes-on-account (≤ ⅓ of the estimate) and votes-of-credit (119–123) — the budget's constitutional choreography;3. Constituent/amending: constitutional amendment initiative (Article 274's ⅔ machinery — Unit 7);4. Electoral and confirmatory: presidential elections (as electoral college — 62), the constitutional appointments' confirming bodies, the treaty-ratification function (Article 279's ⅔ resolutions — PIL-II, this semester, Unit 1);5. Deliberative and accountability: the daily question-debate-oversight function (below); judicial-adjacent functions: impeachment (Article 101 — the ¼-and-⅔ machinery against the President/VP, CJ and SC justices, and constitutional body heads), the emergency's approval (273), federal-rule approval (232(4));6. The HoR-NA asymmetry to memorize: the HoR's three superiorities — finance bills, the confidence machinery (only the HoR elects-and-dismisses the PM), and the numbers-override — the NA's role: revision, second-thought, representation-of-provinces (the federal…