Statistics for AQA Politics A-Level: UK Chapter 1 - 'The constitution'

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who creates Statute law?	Parliament	90%
Name one of the sources of the British constitution	Law, Conventions...	78%
What is the name of the founding document of the constitution and the first step towards the UK's constitutional monarchy?	Magna Carta (1215)	67%
Which Act adopted the European Convention on Human Rights into UK Law?	Human Rights Act 1998	50%
Which religious group was prohibited from becoming British monarchs by the Acts of Settlement (1701)?	Catholics	42%
What is the opposite of a 'federal state?'	Unitary State	42%
Name a key author of a 'work of authority'	Erskine May, A.V. Dicey, Walter Bagehot	35%
Which constitutional document was produced directly after (and as a result of) the above?	Bill of Rights (1689)	34%
Which type of government is the UK (supposed to be) under?	Parliamentary government	29%
Which Act created the Supreme Court, seperating the legislative and judicial branches?	Constitutional Reform Act 2005	26%
What was the name of the treaty that created the European Union (and had a painfully drawn-out Parliamentary passage)?	Maastricht Treaty (1991)	23%
Name of the Acts that gave the Commons supremacy over the Lords	Parliament Acts	22%
What was the name of this when it was eventually passed by Parliament?	European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018	20%
Which 'revolution' compounded the power of the constitution over the monarchy?	Glorious Revolution (1688)	19%
What was the name of the Act that brought this into UK Law?	European Communities Act 1972	18%
The years that the above passed through Parliament	1911, 1949	17%
Which treaty was incorporated into the UK constitution in 1972	Treaty of Rome (1958)	13%
Name BOTH of Dicey's 'twin pillars' of the constitution	Parliamentary sovereignty, Rule of Law	5%
Which professor claimed that the UK is neither of these; instead that we are a 'Union state' or 'nation of nations?'	Professor Vernon Bogdanor	4%
Which Act signified the UK officially leaving the EU?	European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020	2%
What is the common name of Theresa May's proposed legislation to induct over 20,000 pieces of EU Law into UK Law but remove UK from EU legal jurisdiction?	Great Repeal Bill	2%
Which coalition Act offered citizens greater protection from state invasion of privacy?	Protection of Freedoms Act 2012	1%