Try the multiple choice questions below to test your knowledge of this chapter.
Get Started!Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Conventions are not fixed and entrenched in the constitution.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Conventions are not fixed and entrenched in the constitution.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is A as general textbooks may describe the constitution but are not authoritative texts such as those written by theorists like Dicey and Blackstone.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is A as general textbooks may describe the constitution but are not authoritative texts such as those written by theorists like Dicey and Blackstone.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is A. Though answer B, C and D may have shaped areas of private law such as contract and tort, answer A is part of a collection of Acts of Parliament that have had broad public significance and implications for the responsibilities of the state, law-makers and public bodies.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is A. Though answer B, C and D may have shaped areas of private law such as contract and tort, answer A is part of a collection of Acts of Parliament that have had broad public significance and implications for the responsibilities of the state, law-makers and public bodies.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Precedent is an example of past judicial decisions, which can be termed an authority that is persuasive. A Bill is what is presented to one of the Houses of Parliament before it is made into an Act of Parliament
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Precedent is an example of past judicial decisions, which can be termed an authority that is persuasive. A Bill is what is presented to one of the Houses of Parliament before it is made into an Act of Parliament
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is C. The ideas of these thinkers may influence what a written constitution may consist of, but statement D is nonetheless inaccurate.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is C. The ideas of these thinkers may influence what a written constitution may consist of, but statement D is nonetheless inaccurate.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is C. One of the distinctions between laws and conventions is conventions are not legally enforceable, where as laws are.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is C. One of the distinctions between laws and conventions is conventions are not legally enforceable, where as laws are.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Acts of Parliament are far wider in scope, and can cover many areas, precedents are legal rules from case law, and collective ministerial responsibility is an example of a constitutional convention.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Acts of Parliament are far wider in scope, and can cover many areas, precedents are legal rules from case law, and collective ministerial responsibility is an example of a constitutional convention.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is D. Whilst there is nothing technically to stop our monarch from declaring a new convention, this is very unlikely to ever occur. Conventions are not always written down, and they are established after conduct in line with the Jennings criteria.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is D. Whilst there is nothing technically to stop our monarch from declaring a new convention, this is very unlikely to ever occur. Conventions are not always written down, and they are established after conduct in line with the Jennings criteria.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Answer A refers to regulations, answer C refers to EU decisions.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is B. Answer A refers to regulations, answer C refers to EU decisions.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is C.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is C.
Correct. Feedback: The correct answer is C. The leader of the majority party is conventionally appointed by the Queen.
Incorrect. Feedback: The correct answer is C. The leader of the majority party is conventionally appointed by the Queen.