Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the House of Lords can generally delay most public bills passed by the Commons for about:

1. AOne week
2. BAs long as it wishes
3. COne year
4. DFive years

Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects:

1. AFreedom of assembly
2. BThe right to free elections
3. CThe right to life
4. DThe right to a fair trial

The separation of powers divides state power between:

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

A minister refuses to refer a complaint to a committee because the result might embarrass the government. In Padfield v Minister of Agriculture, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe minister had unlimited discretion
2. BThe refusal was unlawful, as it frustrated the purpose of the Act
3. CThe refusal was lawful, since the Act imposed no duty to give reasons
4. DOnly Parliament could question the minister

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. BFraud, mistake and duress
3. CIllegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety
4. DJurisdiction, motive and fairness

In Marbury v Madison (1803), the US Supreme Court established:

1. AThe power of Congress to overrule decisions of the federal judiciary
2. BThe right to bear arms
3. CThe power of courts to review the constitutionality of legislation
4. DThe President's veto power

The Wednesbury unreasonableness test asks whether a decision is:

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

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

1. AOverrule the court's declaration
2. BAmend the incompatible legislation by a remedial order
3. CSuspend the Convention right in question
4. DRefer the case directly to Strasbourg