Chapter 1 Self-test questions

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. Why is the UK system known as a constitutional monarchy?

The unelected monarch is the Head of State and the elected Prime Minister is Head of the Government correct incorrect

The monarch can decide what is and what is not constitutional correct incorrect

The monarch ultimately holds legislative authority correct incorrect

The monarch wrote the UK's codified constitutional document correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements describes federalism?

Power shared between government and the police correct incorrect

Power shared across two or more levels of government correct incorrect

Power vested in a monarch correct incorrect

Power set out in a codified constitutional document correct incorrect

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. Which of the following terms would you not associate with the UK Constitution?

Codified correct incorrect

Uncodified correct incorrect

Flexible correct incorrect

Monarchical correct incorrect

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. The UK Constitution operates within a parliamentary executive structure: true or false?

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Barons forced King John to agree to a settlement protecting certain rights and freedoms, recognised at law, also restricting the King's powers. Which important constitutional event does this describe?

Bill of Rights 1688 correct incorrect

Act of Settlement 1701 correct incorrect

Magna Carta 1215 correct incorrect

Entick v Carrington 1765 correct incorrect

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. In which UK case did the House of Lords disapply the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 in view of its contravention of principles of EU Law?

Entick v Carrington correct incorrect

Costa v ENEL correct incorrect

R (Jackson) v Attorney General correct incorrect

R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame (No 2) correct incorrect

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. Which of the following Acts sets out a process through which legislation can be passed without the House of Lords' consent?

Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 correct incorrect

House of Lords Act 1999 correct incorrect

Constitutional Reform Act 2005 correct incorrect

Human Rights Act 1998 correct incorrect

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. Which of the following changes were not introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005?

Creation of the Judicial Appointments Commission correct incorrect

Abolition of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, and its replacement with the UK Supreme Court correct incorrect

Abolition of the remaining 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords correct incorrect

Alteration to the Lord Chancellor's role correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements about constitutional conventions is not true?

They are laws correct incorrect

They are binding correct incorrect

They are unwritten correct incorrect

They are 'Habits, practices, traditions' correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements describes the civil liberties approach to rights protection?

Rights protected through an entrenched Bill of Rights correct incorrect

A courts-based approach whereby everything is regarded as lawful, except those things that are expressly prohibited at law correct incorrect

A courts-based approach whereby judges apply and uphold rights set out in the Human Rights Act 1998 correct incorrect

Rights protected by a special constitutional court within Parliament correct incorrect