Edexcel Politics 3. The Constitution and Parliament

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The name sometimes given to Prime Minister's Question Time, to critically describe the lack of substance in many of the questions and answers

The devolved administration that was suspended from 2002 to 2007 over a failure of both sides to cooperate and over almost certainly vacuous allegations against some Sinn Féin members of gathering intelligence for the IRA

The term given by A. V. Dicey to the principal matters of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law in regards to the UK constitution

A system in which the legislature is composed of two chambers

The year in which Departmental Select Committees were introduced

A system that commonly arises where multiple separate states unify into a single state

The number of written questions asked in Ministerial Question Time in the period 2015 - 16

Those parliamentary committees with at least eleven members who investigate the; spending, policies, and administration of a particular department

An act that implemented further devolution - including over taxes - along the lines of the Silk Commission, in the wake of a pro-devolution result in the 2001 referendum

A bill applied for and sponsored by local authorities and organisations so as to allow them to undertake a currently prohibited action, often concerning construction and land

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The most rebellious post-war Parliament and government in a pattern of increasingly rebellious Parliaments and governments

The issue arising from devolution that meant Scottish MP's could vote on matters affecting England alone but not vice versa

An act that gave Scotland greater devolved powers than most sub-national European governments, prevented Westminster from intervening in devolved areas without consent, and recognised the permanence of devolved institutions in which powers could only be overturned by a referendum

The first stage of the legislative process in which the bill is introduced to either the House of Commons or the House of Lords

An act following a referendum and the Good Friday Agreement which devolved legislative and administrative powers to a new Northern Ireland Assembly, designed around nationalist and unionist power sharing

A committee of backbench MP's established in 2010 which chooses topics for televised parliamentary debate on 35 Tuesdays per session from those proposed by MP's or by public petitions

A referendum in which a majority of those who voted in Scotland supported devolution, though not enough to equate to the required threshold of 40% of the total registered electorate

The transfer of power but not sovereignty from the UK Parliament to specific regions of the country

A chamber the principal purpose of which is to prevent too much power accumulating in the first chamber

That which is undermined by its subservience to EU law, the process of devolution, and the growing use of referendums