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Chapter 1 Self-test questions
The UK constitution
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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
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The monarch can decide what is and what is not constitutional
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The monarch ultimately holds legislative authority
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The monarch wrote the UK's codified constitutional document
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Which of the following statements describes federalism?
Power shared between government and the police
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Power shared across two or more levels of government
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Power vested in a monarch
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Power set out in a codified constitutional document
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Which of the following terms would you
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associate with the UK Constitution?
Codified
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Uncodified
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Flexible
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Monarchical
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The UK Constitution operates within a parliamentary executive structure: true or false?
True
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False
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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
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Act of Settlement 1701
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Magna Carta 1215
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Entick v Carrington 1765
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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
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Costa v ENEL
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R (Jackson) v Attorney General
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R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame (No 2
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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
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House of Lords Act 1999
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Constitutional Reform Act 2005
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Human Rights Act 1998
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Which of the following changes were
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introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005?
Creation of the Judicial Appointments Commission
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Abolition of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, and its replacement with the UK Supreme Court
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Abolition of the remaining 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords
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Alteration to the Lord Chancellor's role
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Which of the following statements about constitutional conventions is
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true?
They are laws
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They are binding
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They are unwritten
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They are 'Habits, practices, traditions'
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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
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A courts-based approach whereby everything is regarded as lawful, except those things that are expressly prohibited at law
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A courts-based approach whereby judges apply and uphold rights set out in the Human Rights Act 1998
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Rights protected by a special constitutional court within Parliament
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