Parliamentary Sovereignty
This principle makes parliament the top law-making body in the UK
What is the meaning of "Parliamentary Sovereignty"?
This statute incorporated codified European human rights into UK law, yet allows courts to issue declarations of incompatibility rather than strike down Acts of Parliament.
What is the Human Rights Act 1998?
This 1911 Act drastically reduced the power of the House of Lords by removing its absolute veto over most bills.
What is the Parliament Act 1911?
What is the specfic term used to describe a type of sandstorm characterized by strong winds carrying a wall of dust and sand, reducing visiblity and causing hazardous conditions?
(a) Haboob
(b) Dust Devil
(c) Shamal
(d) Whiteout
(a) Haboob
Eventhough parliament is supreme, this cna influence or limit its decisions.
What is public opinion / elections / political pressure?
This is the term for UK constitution to be from a set of rules spread across statutes, conventions and judicial decisions rather than a single document.
What is an uncodified constitution?
Purpose is to 1) Diffuse the power of Parliament; 2) act as a forum for reflection; 3) become the 'second thoughts' on policies and legislative proposals; and 4) revise the legislation
Why have an unelected upper chamber? / Why is there House of Lords?
What do HUMANS shed the most in a year?
(a) Sweat
(b) Hair
(c) Skin
(d) Toenail clippings
(b) Hair!
Once a bill receives Royal Assent, courts cannot question its validity.
What is the Enrolled Bill rule?
Because the uncodified constitution relies on political enforcement, removing parliamentary sovereignty would recquire extraordinary political, not just legal mechanisms.
Why can't political conventions legally constrain parliament?
The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of these members to sit and vote.
Who are hereditary peers?
How much money is in a standard monopoly set?
A. $5,580
B. $10,580
C. $20,580
C. $20,580
This convention requires Westminster to seek consent from devolved legislatures before legistating on mattters within their competence, but it is not legaly enforceable.
What is the Sewel Convention?
Codifying this perogative power in 2011 limited the Prime Minister's ability to call early elections, showing how conventions can be made legally enforceable.
What is the royal perogative to dissolve Parliament?
This type of peerage, allowed women to sit in the Lords for the first time. (Clue: introduced in 1958)
What are life peerages?
What movie in 1925 Is directed by Sergei Eisenstein that involves a historic uprising in Russia?
A. In the Name of the Father
B. The Romanovs
C. Battleship Potemkin
D. Strike
C. Battleship Potemkin