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Political definitions
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1What is 'Additional Member System' (AMS)?
- AA 'mixed' voting system that is made up of elements from First- Past- the- Post and Regional Party-list systems.
- BA voting system based on a collection of single-member constituencies. To win a plurality of votes is required. Sometimes called the single-member plurality system (SMP).
- CAn electoral system which tends to 'over-represent' larger parties. Typically results in single-party government.
2Who is the Head of state in the UK?
- APrime Minister
- BThe EU
- CThe Queen
3What is Parliamentary Sovereignty?
- AThe fact that Parliament is the largest government building in the UK
- BThe principle that Parliament has absolute and unlimited legal supremacy
- CThat Parliament can grant any favour or privilege to any MP or Peer, as they are supreme to the rest of the population
- DForm of democracy that works in and through a deliberative assembly which represents the people and makes government accountable
4An 'MP' is a [blank_start]Member[blank_end] of [blank_start]Parliament[blank_end]
- AParliament
- BMember
5Someone who [blank_start]sits[blank_end] in the House of Lords is a [blank_start]Peer[blank_end]
- APeer
- Bsits
6A Delegate is someone who is chosen to [blank_start]act[blank_end] for another- to carry out someones i[blank_start]nstruction[blank_end]s, without involving their [blank_start]opinion[blank_end].
- Aact
- Bnstruction
- Copinion
7A Backbencher is an MP who does not hold a [blank_start]ministerial[blank_end] post, whereas a [blank_start]Frontbencher[blank_end] is an MP who holds a ministerial post.
- AMinisterial
- BGovernmental
- CCivil Service
- DRoyal
- ESpeaker
- FCabinet Member
- GFrontbencher
8What is Parliamentary democracy?
- AForm of democracy in which the public interest is decided through debate, discussion and argument amongst either representatives or private citizens
- BDemocracy based on the direct, unmeditated and continuous participation of citizens in the tasks of the government
- CDemocracy which operates in and through Parliament- based on a 'fusion' between the legislative and executive branches of government
9What is Parliamentary Government?
- AA set of institutions through which the general rules of society are made and enforced
- BA system in which there is a fusion of powers between the Executive and Legislative, system which governs through and in parliament
- CThe State's supreme authority over its internal affairs, located in a body or bodies that have unchallengeable constitutional authority.
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- AS - Level Government and Politics Quiz on Political definitions , created by Isabel O'Neill on 26/04/2016.
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