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Question 1

Whigs

Answer 1

Cromwellian Protestant, religious freedom, against catholic James II

Question 2

decolonization

Answer 2

allowing a colony to become self-governing

Question 3

Magna Carta

Answer 3

document protecting aristocracy (1215)

Question 4

legal aid

Answer 4

free legal service to people unable to pay for a lawyer

Question 5

Inns of Court

Answer 5

four voluntary legal societies in England

Question 6

Statute law

Answer 6

written law established by the legislative

Question 7

common law

Answer 7

opposed to statute law, unwritten law based on customs/court decisions

Question 8

conveyancing

Answer 8

law practice: examine titles, validate them, conveyance of property from one to another

Question 9

Lloyd’s

Answer 9

insurance firm (1680s) risky activities

Question 10

bail

Answer 10

money as a surety that a person will return on an appointed day

Question 11

district judge

Answer 11

any judge of a federal district court

Question 12

Sinn Fein

Answer 12

political organization in Ireland, founded 1905, want unified Ireland separated from G.B.

Question 13

euro

Answer 13

official currency of the EU

Question 14

Boyne

Answer 14

river in E-Ireland, William III defeated James II (1690)

Question 15

Maastricht

Answer 15

city in the SE-Netherlands

Question 16

IRA

Answer 16

Irish Republican Army

Question 17

Unionist

Answer 17

support union of G.B. and N-Ireland

Question 18

NATO

Answer 18

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) ‘collective defence against aggression’

Question 19

civil law

Answer 19

regulate ordinary private matters, distince from criminal matters

Question 20

barrister

Answer 20

lawyer, member of Inns of Court, priviledge of pleading in the high courts

Question 21

solicitor

Answer 21

represent a client before the lower courts, prepare cases for barristers

Question 22

indictable

Answer 22

formal accusation initiating a criminal case

Question 23

jury

Answer 23

people sworn to render a verdict on official questions submitted to them

Question 24

Welfare state

Answer 24

matters such as social security, health, education, housing, work etc., are the government’s responsibility

Question 25

workhouses

Answer 25

a poorhouse where paupers (depend on welfare funds) are given unpleasant work

Question 26

poor law

Answer 26

law providing support for poor at public expense (1600s) state took over from church

Question 27

Charities

Answer 27

e.g. Shelter

Question 28

Chemist

Answer 28

obtain drugs, must pay

Question 29

Benefits

Answer 29

the state is responsible for its people, the sick and the poor etc. see list

Question 30

landlord

Answer 30

someone who leases apartments to others

Question 31

bungalow

Answer 31

one story house (80% live in these)

Question 32

homeless

Answer 32

officially there are 105,000 people, but real number is estimated around 300,000

Question 33

Shelter

Answer 33

provide accommodation for homeless, help them

Question 34

cohabitation

Answer 34

living together without marriage

Question 35

nuclear family

Answer 35

the ‘typical’ family, two parents+children

Question 36

council housing

Answer 36

built by local government authorities to be rent for low-income tendants, long waiting lists

Question 37

Beveridge Report

Answer 37

very imp. doc., govrnm. appointed commission during WWII, the five giants (meant to slay them)

Question 38

income support

Answer 38

benefit

Question 39

EastEnders

Answer 39

soap opera, very popular

Question 40

public house

Answer 40

‘the pub’

Question 41

pantomimes

Answer 41

family activity, songs, comedy, cross-dressing, audience participate, dancing

Question 42

cronyism

Answer 42

favoring one’s friends

Question 43

NHS

Answer 43

National Health Service, meant to be free at need, 1947