Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits discrimination:

1. AIn every area of life, as a free-standing right
2. BOnly on grounds of nationality
3. COnly by private employers
4. DIn the enjoyment of the other Convention rights

In the United States, the "Bill of Rights" refers to:

1. AThe first article of the Constitution
2. BThe first ten amendments to the Constitution
3. CA statute passed by Congress in the 1960s
4. DThe Declaration of Independence

In the UK, the head of government is:

1. AThe Prime Minister
2. BThe monarch
3. CThe Speaker of the House of Commons
4. DThe Lord Chancellor

The Dutch Constitution (Article 120) forbids courts from:

1. AReviewing Acts of Parliament for compatibility with the Constitution
2. BApplying international treaties
3. CHearing criminal cases
4. DReviewing decisions of municipalities and provinces against national statutes

In the Factortame litigation, while the UK was an EU member, the House of Lords:

1. ADeclared the European Communities Act 1972 invalid
2. BDisapplied parts of an Act of Parliament that conflicted with EU law
3. CHeld that EU law could never limit Acts of Parliament
4. DReferred the matter to the European Court of Human Rights

Under ECHR case law such as Sunday Times v UK, for a restriction to be "prescribed by law", the law must be:

1. AAdequately accessible and foreseeable in its effects
2. BContained in a single written statute passed by parliament
3. COlder than the Convention
4. DApproved by a referendum

Officers enter a writer's house and seize his papers under a warrant issued by a Secretary of State with no legal authority to issue it. In Entick v Carrington, the court held:

1. AThe search was lawful, because the warrant was signed
2. BThe search was unlawful, because state action needs legal authority
3. CThe writer could only complain to Parliament
4. DThe search was lawful, because state necessity justified seizing the papers

In R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (2014), concerning the ban on assisted suicide, the majority of the UK Supreme Court:

1. AHeld that Article 8 was not engaged at all
2. BMade a declaration of incompatibility with Article 8, while leaving the ban itself in force for now
3. CRead the ban down under section 3 to allow assisted dying
4. DDeclined to make a declaration of incompatibility at that time, leaving it to Parliament