Constitution
In 1999, Labour government removed all but how many hereditary peers?
92
What day does PMQs take place?
Wednesday
As a result of Factortame, what could the UK Supreme Court do when UK law contradicted EU law.
Dissaply
Who is the leader of the SNP and first Minister of Scotland?
John Swinney
Who wrote "A Vindication on the Rights of Women"
Mary Wollstonecraft
What is the name of the 1689 document that limited the power of the monarch?
Bill of Rights
How many days a year do the Backbench Business Committee get to decide the topic of debate?
35
At what ages do judges have to retire from the Supreme Court now?
75
Only one Supreme Court judge did not go to Oxford or Cambridge. Which university did they go to?
Manchester
What was the period of 1945 - 1979 known as?
The post-war consensus
Which legal theorist most famously defined parliamentary sovereignty as Parliament having the right to “make or unmake any law whatever”?
A.V. Dicey
What is created to scrutinise legislation?
Public Bill Committee
What law created the Supreme Court
Constitutional Reform Act
A PMB in 2018 was rejected as there was not enough time to vote after one MP objecting. The government then took it on and made it law. What was the issue around?
Upskirting
What are self and other regarding actions?
Self regarding are actions that don't harm other people's freedom and should be left alone.
Other regarding impacts people's freedoms and should be curbed
One of the sources of the UK Constitution is conventions. It is convention that the PM comes from the Commons. Who became PM by resigning their position in the Lords?
Alec Douglas - Home
How many defeats did Theresa May suffer in her time as PM?
26
For Women Scotland:
The question was whether the legal definition of a woman under the Equalities act meant
"_____________ " or "____________" sec
Certified vs biological
John Profumo resigned in 1961, but what position did he hold?
Minister for War
What was Robert Nozick's main work called?
Anarchy, State and Utopia
Who was London's first mayor?
Ken Livingstone
Which Conservative MP resigned the whip in order to vote against Heathrow expansion. They then resigned as an MP to call a by-election to bring attention to the issue
Zak Goldsmith
In the Rwanda Case, what article of the HRA did the Respondents argue the government were breaching?
Article 3 (freedom from torture etc)
How many members of the House of Lords are designated as Crossbench? (I will accept 20 either side)
179
When did Karl Marx die?
1883