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Government & Politics Paper 1
1. UK Constitution 2. Parliament 3. The executive 4. The Judiciary 5. Devolution
6. Democracy and 7. Elections and 8. Political parties 9. Pressure groups 10. The Europea
Participation Referendums
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,1. UK Constitution
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,Nature of the UK Constitution
1. Uncodified 2. Unitary 3. Rule of law 4. Parliamentary
sovereignty
• more difficult for citizens to - power is derived in central - everyone is equally subject
understand their rights and government. to the laws – even - the constitution is w
how their political system government and ministers. parliament says it is
works. • parliament is sovereign, - AV Dicey: one of the ‘twin through statute law.
• easier to adapt, i.e. and therefore powerful. pillars’ of the Constitution. - another one of AV D
through Acts of Parliament • regional devolved powers ‘twin pillars’.
– no complicated are delegated – not • ensures powers of the
procedure needed. permanent. government are limited. • flexible and easy to
• would be acting ultra vires – can just pass a law
i.e. beyond powers of the
land.
– need to reverse action,
i.e. Boris Johnson
proroguing parliament
2019. SC: unconstitutional.
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, Sources of the UK Constitution
1. Statute law 2. Common law 3. Royal prerogative 4. Conventions
- Acts of Parliament. - legal precedence. - historic political powers of the - unwritten traditions that
- i.e. Great Reform Act 1832, Ballot - i.e. Magna Carta and other historical monarch ⟶ now PM. government and political
Act 1872. documents. - i.e. deployment and size of run more smoothly.
- cover civil liberties and human rights monarch’s armed forces are decided - i.e. 1945 Salisbury Conv
– i.e. HRA 1998 which incorporated • no precedence over statute law. by the government – not the Lords agreed to not dela
ECHR into law. • statute law can repeal/modify rights sovereign. contained in the governin
granted under common law. i.e. manifesto.
• flexible and adaptable. statute laws that deal with • a way of the government extending
• trend is expanding and protecting compulsory purchase orders can its powers (democratic mandate?) • normally works well, i.e.
democracy and individual rights, i.e. modify rights of property owners. • extended powers: PM alone giving David Cameron to have t
full women’s suffrage 1928. honours (including peerage). chance to form a coalitio
• rights can be removed – but ECHR • can be limited by Acts of Parliament, government after indecis
adds ‘double lock’. e.g. Fixed-term Parliaments Act result.
2011. • BUT not protected by an
more substantial than tra
– need a shared understa
what it means – can’t be
• when the Lords rejected t
People’s Budget 1909 an
convention ⟶ a constitut
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