Revision For Progressional Exams:

Question 1

What does UNCODIFIED mean?

Answer 1

Not written down in one place

Question 2

What does ENTRENCHED mean?

Answer 2

There is nothing to protect it from being changed

Question 3

What is UNITARY?

Answer 3

All power is held in one place

Question 4

Name an example of the constitution being flexible

Answer 4

• Covid restrictions
• Firearms Act 1997
• Brexit

Question 5

What is a convention?

Answer 5

Unwritten TRADITION accepted as binding

Question 6

Give an example of treaties?

Answer 6

After Brexit, the UK didn’t follow EU treaties

Question 7

What is common law?

Answer 7

Unwritten laws established through the courts over a long period of time

Question 8

What are historic documents or authoritative works?

Answer 8

books turned into law

Question 9

What was devolution first called as a law?

Answer 9

Scotland Act

Question 10

What was the Salisbury convention?

Answer 10

• Lords can’t go against second or third readings
• Lords can’t go against a governments manifesto

Question 11

What is the Sewel convention?

Answer 11

The government must ask before taking back powers from devolved powers

Question 12

What committee will public bills go to?

Answer 12

Public Bill Committee

Question 13

What committee will government departments go to?

Answer 13

Select committees

Question 14

What committee will specific policies/problems go to? (e.g, the EU)

Answer 14

Select committee

Question 15

What is a public bill committee?

Answer 15

Scrutinises public bills.

Emerges when a bill is put through parliament, and dies when it has been passed/killed.

Question 16

What is a select committee?

Answer 16

Monitors the major departments of government.

Question 17

What is a constitution?

Answer 17

Laws which govern a coutnry

Question 18

What is rule of law?

Answer 18

Everyone is subject to the law and nobody is above it

Question 19

What is statute law?

Answer 19

Laws written by parliament

Question 20

What is common law?

Answer 20

Unwritten laws

Question 21

What is devolution?

Answer 21

Sharing powers to other nations, but not sovereignty

Question 22

What is the House of Commons also referred to as?

Answer 22

The Lower Chamber

Question 23

What is the House of Lords also referred to?

Answer 23

The Upper Chamber

Question 24

Who is in the executive?

Answer 24

• Prime Minister
• Cabinet
• Treasury
• Departments

Question 25

How long until cabinet meetings are revealed to the public?

Answer 25

30 years

Question 26

When and for how long does cabinet meet for?

Answer 26

Every Thursday, for rarely longer than two hours.

Question 27

How many people are in a cabinet?

Answer 27

20-25 people

Question 28

What is an emergency cabinet meeting known as?

Answer 28

COBRA meeting

Question 29

What is collective ministerial responsibility?

Answer 29

If a minister disagrees with government policy, they must resign.

Question 30

What is individual ministerial responsibility?

Answer 30

If a department or minister makes a serious error, they must resign (apologise as of May 2022)

Question 31

What is sofa politics?

Answer 31

Making decisions as a Prime Minister without cabinet

Question 32

What is a political spin?

Answer 32

Making a policy or idea seem appealing to the media

Question 33

How should you write a 30 mark essay?

Answer 33

Introduction - 3 sentences
Agree
Caveat
Agree
Caveat
Disagree
Caveat (agree)
Ultimately, …

Question 34

How should you write a paragraph

Answer 34

Argument
Evidence
Explain