OCR GCSE Citizenship Studies Democracy and government overview quiz quiz

Because it has no actual rules of government at all to follow

Because all of the rules of government are kept completely secret

Because only the reigning monarch is ever allowed to know what the actual rules are

Because there is no single written document; the rules come from many sources

Parliament is the supreme law-making body and can make or unmake any law

The monarch can overrule Parliament and refuse to pass any law at all

The courts make all the laws and Parliament simply checks over them

The public votes directly on every single law in a referendum before it can be passed

The House of Commons

The House of Lords

The Cabinet

The Senedd

They are exactly the same thing and the two words mean nothing different at all

The government makes all of the laws itself while Parliament actually runs the whole country day to day

Parliament makes and scrutinises laws; the government runs the country and answers to Parliament

Parliament is made up of only the House of Lords and nothing else besides it

The Prime Minister

The Speaker of the Commons

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

The monarch (the King or Queen)

First-past-the-post

Proportional representation

The single transferable vote

Compulsory online voting

It is far too complicated and slow for the officials to count up all of the votes by hand

It is not proportional, so seats can differ sharply from a party's share of the vote

It never manages to produce any clear winner in a general election

It unfairly gives every single voter in the country two separate votes

The whole United Kingdom formally leaving the European Union after a national referendum

Abolishing all of the local councils right across the whole country and removing every one of their powers entirely

The transfer of some powers from Westminster to elected bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Handing over all of the political power in the country to the reigning monarch

Running the health service in Scotland

Running schools and education in Wales

Local household rubbish collection

Defence and foreign affairs

Value Added Tax (VAT)

Royal Assent

A vote of no confidence

A select committee

The armed forces and defence

Welfare and pensions

Public libraries and museums

Royal ceremonies and palaces

Paying VAT

Receiving Royal Assent

Joining a pressure group

Being summoned for jury service