Constitutions Basics Lessons 1-3

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  1. 4. When government powers are subject to limitations and checks, thus protecting the individual (2 words)
  2. 6. When the Constitution is difficult to change or abolish
  3. 7. Laws are the same as other laws so other laws and political bodies can't be compared to it and declared constitutional or otherwise (2 words)
  4. 8. rigid class system, debt, famine and hunger led to this happening which led to the Declarations of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789 (2 words)
  5. 9. laws based on precedent and tradition (2 words)
  6. 11. books about the constitution written by experts (4 words)
  7. 15. A constitution in which all the provisions are collected in a single document (2 words)
  8. 19. Passed in 1701 this piece of legislation helped transfer power from the monarchy to Parliament (3 words)
  9. 21. ultimate power
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  1. 1. constitutional laws changed the same way as other laws (2 words)
  2. 2. A cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate
  3. 3. the stamp act, Townshend Act and lack of representation led to this and then a constitution by 1788 (2 words)
  4. 5. A constitution made up of a number of sources like we have in the UK (2 words)
  5. 10. Constitutional laws are the same as other laws (2 words)
  6. 12. Constitutional laws are the highest in the land
  7. 13. When an election fails to give a single party a majority of seats in the House of Commons (2 words)
  8. 14. body of powers and privileges held by the Crown and now by cabinet ministers (2 words)
  9. 16. We are members of a particular community which means we must adhere to these as part of our constiution (4 words)
  10. 17. unwritten source also known as traditions
  11. 18. Supreme court decides whether laws and political bodies are constitutional
  12. 20. acts of parliament (2 words)