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Question 1

What are the main sources of the UK Constitution?

Answer 1

Statute law, common law, conventions, authoritative works, EU treaties/laws (pre-Brexit)

Question 3

what is parliamentary sovereignty?

Answer 3

Parliament can make or unmake any law and no body can override it.

Question 4

What reforms changed the constitution since 1997?

Answer 4

House of Lords reform, devolution, HRA 1998, creation of Supreme Court

Question 5

what is the role of the HOC?

Answer 5

makes laws, scrutinises government, represents people

Question 6

what is the salisbury convention?

Answer 6

Lords won’t block a government manifesto bill

Question 7

what are select committees?

Answer 7

Committees in parliament that scrutinise departments and ministers

Question 8

what is the role of the HOL

Answer 8

scrutinise and revise legislation, can delay (not veto) bills.

Question 9

what are the powers of the Prime Minister?

Answer 9

Appoint ministers, set policy agenda, represent the UK, command the majority.

Question 10

What is collective Ministerial responsibility?

Answer 10

Ministers must support Cabinet decisions or resign.

Question 11

what affects the PM-Cabinet relationship?

Answer 11

PM’s majority, party unity, media/public opinion, PM’s leadership style

Question 12

What is judicial independence?

Answer 12

Judges operate free from political pressureW

Question 13

What is judicial neutrality?

Answer 13

Judges are unbiased and impartial

Question 14

What did the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 do?

Answer 14

Created the UK Supreme Court, reducing role of Lord Chancellor.

Question 15

What was the impact of Brexit on parliamentary sovereignty?

Answer 15

Returned sovereignty from the EU to the Uk Parliament

Question 16

What is the core idea of nationalism

Answer 16

The belief that people should be grouped into nations with self-determination

Question 17

What is cultural nationalism?

Answer 17

Emphasises shared culture, language and traditions

Question 18

What is racialism in nationalism??

Answer 18

THe belief that races are biologically different, used in extreme nationalism

Question 19

what is civic nationalism?

Answer 19

nation defined by shared values and citizenship?

Question 20

what is ethnic nationalism?

Answer 20

nation defined by ethnicity and ancestry

Question 21

what is liberal nationalism

Answer 21

belief in self-determination, democracy and international cooperation

Question 22

what is conservative nationalism

Answer 22

emphasises tradition, social unity and gradual change.

Question 23

what is expansionist nationalism?

Answer 23

aggressive belief in national superiority and empire-building.

Question 24

what is anti-colonial nationalism?

Answer 24

nationalism reaching against colonial rule (India, Africa)

Question 25

what did Rousseau argue

Answer 25

the general will unites the nation and should be sovereign

Question 26

what did herder believe?

Answer 26

cultural nationalism; nations have unique Volksgeist (national spirit)

Question 27

what did Mazzini argue?

Answer 27

Nationhood and divine destiny; spiritual unity

Question 28

What did Maurras argue?

Answer 28

Integral nationalism, anti-individualist and authoritarian

Question 29

What did Marcus Garvey argue?

Answer 29

Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, uniting African diaspora

Question 30

How do liberal and expansionist nationalism differ?

Answer 30

Liberal: self-determination and equality Expansionist: national superiority and empire.