Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Section 3 of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 requires courts to:

1. AStrike down any provision of an Act that cannot be read compatibly with Convention rights
2. BRead and give effect to legislation compatibly with Convention rights, so far as possible
3. CFollow every judgment of the Strasbourg court
4. DAsk Parliament to interpret unclear statutes

A codified constitution is one whose main rules are:

1. AAgreed afresh after every election
2. BCollected in a single written document
3. CBased entirely on unwritten customs
4. DFound only in judicial decisions

A unitary state is one in which:

1. AThere is only one political party
2. BThe head of state is also head of government
3. CSovereign power is held at the centre, which may delegate powers to other levels
4. DRegions have powers guaranteed by the constitution, which the centre cannot alter alone

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

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

Parliamentary sovereignty (as described by Dicey) means that:

1. ACourts can strike down any Act of Parliament that conflicts with common law rights
2. BThe executive can override Parliament
3. CParliament must obey previous Parliaments
4. DParliament can make or unmake any law, and no body can override its Acts

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

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

After a court makes a declaration of incompatibility, section 10 of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 allows a minister to:

1. ASuspend the Convention right in question
2. BRefer the case directly to Strasbourg
3. CAmend the incompatible legislation by a remedial order
4. DOverrule the court's declaration

A statute says a commission's "determination ... shall not be called in question in any court of law". In Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe decision was immune from review because the ouster clause applied to all its determinations
2. BThe clause excluded all judicial review
3. CThe clause did not protect a decision based on an error of law, because that was a nullity
4. DThe clause was invalid as unconstitutional