Government Bridging Work

Question 1

Constitution

Answer 1

A set of principles and rules by which a country is organised and governed.

Question 2

Codified

Answer 2

To arrange in accordance to a set plan or system.

Question 3

Entrenched

Answer 3

An attitude or belief or ideology that has been firmly established and is unlikely to change.

Question 4

Parliamentary sovereignty

Answer 4

A concept of law in some Parliamentary democracies which states the legislative body is supreme over all other government institutions.

Question 5

Unitary constitution

Answer 5

All legal sovereignty being contained by a single entity or power that gives government supreme authority.

Question 6

Federalism

Answer 6

Federalism is a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.

Question 7

Statute

Answer 7

A written law passed by a legislative body

Question 8

Constitutional convention

Answer 8

A meeting of representatives to adopt a new constitution or revise existing constitution.

Question 9

Common law

Answer 9

The body of law created by judges and judicial tribunals by virtue of their political and written opinions.

Question 10

Authoritative work

Answer 10

Books and written work written by constitutional theorists that are considered to be authoritative guides and to the UK’s uncodified constituion