Constitutional law worksheet with answers

The European Convention on Human Rights was drawn up within:

1. ANATO
2. BThe Council of Europe
3. CThe United Nations
4. DThe European Union

The separation of powers divides state power between:

1. AThe police, the army and the courts
2. BThe central, regional and local tiers of government
3. CParliament, the monarch and the church
4. DThe legislature, the executive and the judiciary

A constitutional monarchy is one in which the monarch:

1. ALeads the governing political party
2. BHolds all legislative and executive power personally, and ministers merely advise on request
3. CIs head of state but acts within constitutional limits, mostly on ministers' advice
4. DIs elected by parliament every five years

To amend the Dutch Constitution under Article 137:

1. AA simple majority in both chambers is enough, after which the King must sign the amendment into law
2. BA national referendum must approve it
3. CThe King and the Council of State decide it
4. DA proposal is passed, elections follow, and then both chambers must approve it by two-thirds

In Bellinger v Bellinger, the House of Lords could not read the marriage law to recognise a trans woman's marriage to a man, so it:

1. ARead the statute compatibly under section 3
2. BStruck down the relevant provision
3. CReferred the case to Strasbourg
4. DMade a declaration of incompatibility

In Dudgeon v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that criminalising consensual homosexual acts between adult men in Northern Ireland:

1. AWas outside the scope of the Convention
2. BViolated the right to respect for private life under Article 8
3. CWas justified under Article 8(2) as necessary to protect public morals
4. DViolated only the right to marry

Article 79(3) of the German Basic Law (the "eternity clause") forbids amendments that affect:

1. AOnly the articles on taxation
2. BThe electoral system, the number of seats in the Bundestag, or any of the rules in Articles 38 to 48 on elections
3. CThe federal structure, the Länder's participation in legislation, or the principles in Articles 1 and 20
4. DAny article of the Basic Law at all

A health authority moves a severely disabled woman into a care home after promising it would be her "home for life", then decides to close it. In R v North and East Devon HA, ex p Coughlan:

1. AOnly a fair consultation was required
2. BThe promise was void because the authority had no statutory power to make it
3. CFrustrating her substantive legitimate expectation was an abuse of power
4. DThe promise could be broken whenever policy changed