Characteristics Of A Constituiton

Question 1

Unwritten or Uncodified

Answer 1

Uncodified:
• Written sources but not in one big document
• eg: UK, New Zealand, Israel

Question 2

Rigid or flexible?

Answer 2

Rigid:
• Entrenchment
• Special/ Onerous conditions for amendment
•eg US

Flexible:
•Ordinary Law
• No special provision for change

Question 3

Monarchical or Republican?

Answer 3

Royal assent, prerogative powers

Question 4

Entrenchment

Answer 4

Constitutional laws or values are secured in a way that makes them impossible or very difficult to change

Ridley talks about how the European bill of human rights is entrenched because its higher than parliamentary sovereignty

Question 5

Second amendment: right to bear arms

Answer 5

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms”

Question 6

District of Columbia v Heller

Answer 6

• Hellers 2nd Amendment right was being quashed by DoC