The first significant written limitation of the monarch's power, signed by King John
What is the Magna Carta?
The two components of the Constitution of the Crown
What are the Dignified and the Efficient?
Conquered by William the Conqueror in 1066
What is England
The British lower classes attend these types of schools
What are State Schools?
Party to which Margaret Thatcher belonged
What is the Conservative Party
Enshrined the Bill of Rights in the British constitution under William and Mary
What is the Glorious Revolution?
Electoral system used in UK General Elections
United with England by the Acts of Union (1707)
What is Scotland?
Characterized by Paternalism
What are the upper middle/upper classes?
Tony Blair pursued the "Third Way" in transforming this party
What is the Labour Party?
Period of parliamentary cooperation during and after WW2 in which Britain transitioned to a Mixed Economy
What is the Collective Consensus?
Group of Members of Parliament who have collective responsibility for governing the country
What is the cabinet?
United with England by conquest under Edward I
What is Wales?
Characterized by Solidarity
What is the working class?
Characterized by traditional Socialism
What is Old Labour?
Economic event which moved British politics back towards economic liberalism
What is the OPEC oil embargo/strikes of the early '70s?
Automatic members of the House of Lords
What are Life Peers?
The process by which more power is given to local parliaments
What is Devolution?
Institutions which primarily educate Upper-Middle and Upper Class children
What are public schools?
Institution which founded the Labour Party in 1900
What is the Trades Union Congress
Act of Parliament by which the proletariat made up the majority of the enfranchised population
What is the Representation of the People Act of 1884?
Act which prevented Prime Ministers from proroguing parliament at will
What is the Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011?
Created the Northern Ireland Assembly and resolved Catholic-Protestant disputes
What is the Good Friday Agreement of 1998?
Primary base of the Thatcherite wing of the Conservative Party
What is Middle England?
Wing of the party to which David Cameron belonged
What is the One-Nation Conservative/Tory Democracy wing?