Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Members of the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer) are mainly elected by:

1. AAppointment by the King
2. BDirect vote of all citizens
3. CMembers of the House of Representatives
4. DMembers of the provincial councils

Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects:

1. AThe right to an effective remedy
2. BFreedom of religion
3. CThe right to marry
4. DThe right to liberty and security

A federal state is one in which:

1. AAll power is held by the capital city
2. BThere is no central government
3. CRegions may secede unilaterally whenever a majority of their voters wishes
4. DPower is constitutionally divided between a central government and regions

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

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

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. BMade a declaration of incompatibility
3. CReferred the case to Strasbourg
4. DStruck down the relevant provision

In the GCHQ case, the House of Lords held that the exercise of prerogative powers:

1. AIs always fully reviewable, whatever subject matter it concerns
2. BCan be judicially reviewed, depending on its subject matter
3. CCan be reviewed only if Parliament agrees
4. DCan never be reviewed by the courts

In Germany, an individual who claims a public authority has violated their basic rights may, after exhausting other remedies, bring:

1. AA case to the European Court of Justice
2. BA constitutional complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court
3. CA request to the Federal President to veto
4. DA petition directly to the Bundestag's President

The Wednesbury unreasonableness test asks whether a decision is:

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