Unit 3

Question 1

Responsible government

Answer 1

The principles that ensure that the government does not abuse its power and retains support of the majority of members of the House of Representatives to stay in power

Question 2

Representative government

Answer 2

A system in which people vote for candidates to represent them in parliament and make laws on their behalf

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or their elected agents under a free electoral system

Question 4

Double Dissolution

Answer 4

The simultaneous disbanding of the upper and lower houses of parliament preparatory to an election, used to resolve a deadlock between the houses

Question 5

Referendum

Answer 5

Changing the Australian Constitution, requires double majority

Question 6

Joint sitting

Answer 6

When a joint sitting is held Members and Senators deliberate and vote together on the proposed law in the form it was last proposed by the House of Representatives.

Question 7

Unicameral and bicameral

Answer 7

One house; two houses

Question 8

Bureaucratic procedures

Answer 8

The established methods in large organizations or governments that are designed to maintain uniformity and control within an organization

Question 9

Rule of Law

Answer 9

no one is above the law - How different legal principles uphold the rule of law, and how they protect rights, freedoms and stability in our legal system.

Question 10

Section 44

Answer 10

dual citizens or foreign citizens cannot be members of parliament

Question 11

Section 51

Answer 11

outlines the Commonwealth’s power to make laws

Question 12

Section 109

Answer 12

establishes that the Commonwealth prevails over the states

Question 13

Section 128

Answer 13

determines how the Constitution can be changed, which is with a referendum that requires a double majority