Edexcel Politics 3. The Constitution and Parliament

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That which interviews those people who appear on a shortlist in order to determine the official party candidate of a constituency

The name sometimes given to the official opposition by lieu of its position during any potential election

The system under which a further stage of the legislative process is introduced in which only MP's from England can vote

An act that enhanced the devolved powers of the Welsh Assembly and made further devolution easier

An act that devolved further powers to Scotland along the lines of the Calman Commission report

One in which the legislature is composed of one chamber

The devolved administration that was suspended from 2002 to 2007 over a failure of both sides to cooperate and over almost certainly vacuous allegations against some Sinn Féin members of gathering intelligence for the IRA

A type of constitution criticised for being unclear, and placing few limits on executive power or Parliamentary sovereignty, threatening rights and freedoms

Where the three branches of government have separate powers and can control each other's behaviour

The oldest Select Committee in the House of Commons and perhaps the most influential, responsible for scrutinising the value for money - economy, efficiency, and effectiveness - of public spending and the collection of taxes, with the chair always being from the opposition party, producing unanimous, non-partisan reports

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The year in which elected police crime commissioners were introduced

A constitution in which sovereignty lies in one single place such as in the UK Parliament

Where all rights of self-government except national issues such as defence and foreign policy are given over, while still allowing the central authority to intervene and add or revoke powers where necessary

The transfer of power but not sovereignty from the UK Parliament to specific regions of the country

The region of England for which a 2004 referendum on devolution saw a large 78% no vote

The first stage of the legislative process in which the bill is introduced to either the House of Commons or the House of Lords

An act that reduced the number of hereditary peers in the House of Lords to 92, elected by all hereditary peers, and allowed those peers not in the House of Lords to sit in the House of Commons

Seldom successful bills presented to Parliament by individual or groups of MP's or peers, with seven being selected in a ballot at the start of the year guaranteeing them at least one reading

Those parliamentarians who instruct MP's on parliamentary business as well as required attendance and voting, approve absences, and enforce party discipline

An act that implemented further devolution - including over taxes - along the lines of the Silk Commission, in the wake of a pro-devolution result in the 2001 referendum