Context: Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments (the equivalent of the executive branch) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament rather than to the monarch, or, in a colonial context, to the imperial government, and in a republican context, to the president, either in full or in part. If the parliament is bicameral, then the government is responsible first to the parliament's lower house, which is more numerous, always directly elected and thus more representative than the upper house.
Responsible government of parliamentary accountability manifests itself in several ways. Ministers account to Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments. This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament means that ministers have to have the privileges of the "floor" which are only granted to those who are members of either house of Parliament. Secondly, and most importantly, although ministers are officially appointed by the authority of the head of state and can theoretically be dismissed at the pleasure of the sovereign, they concurrently retain their office subject to their holding the confidence of the lower house of Parliament. When the lower house has passed a motion of no confidence in the government, the government must immediately resign or submit itself to the electorate in a new general election., Jay Abbass ( born 1957 ) is a lawyer , businessman , former stockbroker and former political figure in Nova Scotia , Canada . He represented Halifax Chebucto in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1998 as a Liberal member . He was born in Fredericton , New Brunswick and was educated at Saint Mary 's University and Dalhousie University . Abbass was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the provincial assembly in the 1988 election , finishing third in the Halifax Citadel riding . In the 1993 election , he defeated New Democrat Eileen O'Connell by 106 votes in the Halifax Chebucto riding . He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Labour , Minister of Human Resources , Minister of Justice and Attorney General . Abbass resigned from cabinet on April 1 , 1997 , and announced he was not running in the next election . Abbass was named to the board of governors for Dalhousie University in 2006 ., The Nova Scotia Legislature, formally, known as the General Assembly, consists of the Crown represented by a Lieutenant Governor and the House of Assembly, is the legislative branch of the provincial government of Nova Scotia, Canada. The assembly is the oldest in Canada, having first sat in 1758, and in 1848 was the site of the first responsible government in the British Empire., Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; French: "Nouvelle-Écosse") is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces which form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-smallest province, with an area of , including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727, making Nova Scotia the second most-densely populated province in Canada with almost ., Halifax Chebucto is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly., Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces  New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia  and the easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the four Atlantic provinces in 2011 was about 2,300,000 on half a million km., Subject: jay abbass, Relation: position_held, Options: (A) 3 (B) executive branch (C) governor (D) lieutenant governor (E) member of the nova scotia house of assembly (F) nova scotia house of assembly (G) prince (H) sovereign
Output: member of the nova scotia house of assembly