Constitutional law worksheet with answers

In the UK, the royal prerogative is:

1. AA set of powers conferred on the Prime Minister by the Constitutional Reform Act
2. BA set of powers of the Crown recognised by common law, not created by statute
3. CThe monarch's personal right to veto any Act
4. DThe right of judges to overrule Parliament

Which Act created the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom?

1. AHuman Rights Act 1998
2. BScotland Act 1998
3. CConstitutional Reform Act 2005
4. DParliament Act 1911

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

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

In the United States, Congress can override a presidential veto by:

1. AA simple majority in the House only
2. BA three-quarters vote of the states
3. CAsking the Supreme Court to approve the bill
4. DA two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate

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

1. AOrder Parliament to amend the Act within a month
2. BStrike down the Act immediately
3. CMake a declaration of incompatibility, leaving the Act in force
4. DRefer the case to the European Court of Human Rights automatically

Under British Oxygen v Minister of Technology, a public body that adopts a policy for exercising its discretion must:

1. AStill be willing to listen to anyone with something new to say
2. BApply the policy rigidly in every case to ensure consistent treatment
3. CMake no policy at all
4. DHave the policy approved by Parliament

After 2001, the UK detained foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely without trial. In A v Home Secretary (the Belmarsh case), the House of Lords:

1. AUpheld the detention as a valid response to an emergency
2. BOrdered the immediate release of all detainees
3. CHeld that national security questions were for the executive alone and could not be reviewed by courts
4. DMade a declaration of incompatibility, finding the measure disproportionate and discriminatory

In YL v Birmingham City Council (2007), the House of Lords held that a private care home housing residents funded by a council:

1. AWas a core public authority
2. BCould not house publicly funded residents
3. CWas not exercising a function of a public nature under the Human Rights Act
4. DWas a hybrid public authority bound by the Act for all the care it provided