Constitutional law worksheet with answers

The Dutch Parliament (Staten-Generaal) consists of:

1. AThe provincial councils and municipal councils
2. BThe King and the Council of Ministers
3. CThe House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) and the Senate (Eerste Kamer)
4. DThe Council of State and the Supreme Court

Judicial review allows courts to:

1. ARewrite any legislation they consider unwise
2. BCheck whether public bodies act lawfully
3. CDecide elections
4. DAppoint government ministers

A codified constitution is one whose main rules are:

1. ACollected in a single written document
2. BFound only in judicial decisions
3. CBased entirely on unwritten customs
4. DAgreed afresh after every election

In R v Bow Street Magistrate, ex p Pinochet (No 2), the House of Lords set aside its own earlier decision because:

1. AOne judge had links to a charity that was a party to the case
2. BThe case had been heard in private
3. CThe judges had made a legal mistake
4. DPinochet had not been given a lawyer of his own choice at the hearing

In Golder v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that Article 6 includes:

1. AA right of access to a court
2. BA right to a jury trial
3. CA right to free legal aid in all cases
4. DA right to appeal to Strasbourg

Proportionality review usually asks whether a measure:

1. APursues a legitimate aim, is suitable, necessary and balanced
2. BWas adopted quickly
3. CIs popular with voters
4. DIs the cheapest option available and has been approved by parliament

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

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