Constitutional law worksheet with answers

The United Kingdom's constitution is best described as:

1. ALargely uncodified
2. BCopied from the US constitution
3. CSet out entirely in EU treaties
4. DFully written in one document

The Sewel convention says that the UK Parliament will not normally:

1. ADebate matters concerning Scotland
2. BLegislate on Scottish matters without first holding a referendum in Scotland
3. CLegislate on devolved matters without the devolved legislature's consent
4. DChange taxes without a referendum

A "rigid" constitution is one that:

1. ACan be amended only by a special procedure
2. BCan be changed by an ordinary Act
3. CCan never be amended at all
4. DIs enforced strictly by the army

In CCSU v Minister for the Civil Service (the GCHQ case), Lord Diplock classified the grounds of judicial review as:

1. ALegality, legitimacy and proportionality
2. BIllegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety
3. CFraud, mistake and duress
4. DJurisdiction, motive and fairness

Under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, if a court cannot read an Act compatibly with Convention rights, it can:

1. AMake a declaration of incompatibility, leaving the Act in force
2. BOrder Parliament to amend the Act within a month
3. CRefer the case to the European Court of Human Rights automatically
4. DStrike down the Act immediately

Under the Human Rights Act 1998, a private body with some "functions of a public nature" is:

1. ABound by the Act in everything it does
2. BNever bound by the Act
3. CBound by the Act only if it receives most of its funding from the state
4. DBound by the Act for its public functions, but not for private acts

Since the 2008 constitutional reform in France, the "question prioritaire de constitutionnalité" allows:

1. AJudges in any court to strike down statutes themselves
2. BA party in court to ask for a statute in force to be reviewed for breach of constitutional rights
3. CThe President to suspend a statute for one year
4. DAny citizen to challenge a bill before Parliament votes on it, by petition to the Conseil constitutionnel

The Wednesbury unreasonableness test asks whether a decision is:

1. AUnpopular with the public
2. BSlightly less than ideal
3. CSo unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have made it
4. DDifferent from what the judge would have decided on the same evidence