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Edexcel Politics 3. The Constitution and Parliament

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An act that devolved further powers to the Welsh Assembly (to be renamed the Welsh Senedd/Parliament in 2020), prevented Westminster from intervening in devolved areas without consent, and recognised the permanence of devolved institutions in which powers could only be overturned by a referendum
2017 Wales Act
The first stage of the legislative process in which the bill is introduced to either the House of Commons or the House of Lords
First Reading
Where a (devolved) government holds the powers to implement and administer laws as well as to organise state services
Administrative Powers
The function of the House of Commons to raise local concerns and undertake redress of grievances
Constituency function
An initial draft document on a specific policy area, circulated amongst interested parties, who are invited to join in a consultative process on the best way forwards
Green Paper
The year in which Southern Ireland became practically independent as the Irish Free State, becoming the fully independent Irish Republic in 1937
1922
The second stage of the legislative process in which Parliament debates the principles of the legislation, followed by a division/vote which the government virtually always wins
Second Reading
The so-called first English Parliament with Commons representation in the form of burgesses, that sat it 1265
Simon de Montfort's Parliament
The fourth stage of the legislative process in which the whole house debates all amendments
Report Stage
The way in which MP's and peers cannot; be sued or prosecuted for libel or slander for any actions taken within the Palace of Westminster, and both houses regulate their members' conduct via the parliamentary commissioner for standards, the speakers, and the committees on conduct
Parliamentary privilege
The appointment of supporters to positions of authority - as with partisan life peerages - regardless of qualifications or merit
Cronyism
The House in which question time involves questions being asked of the government as a whole rather than individual departments
House of Lords
Where a constitution is safeguarded from arbitrary, easy, and short-term changes by future governments or legislatures, with change requiring more difficult to reach parameters
Entrenchment
The issue which most affects the amount of influence backbenchers hold under any particular government
Government's Majority
The largest non-government party in the House of Commons
Official opposition
The current solution to the West Lothian Question, established in 2015, in which legislation affecting England alone requires a majority support from English MP's to pass
English Votes for English Laws
An act that ended the power of the House of Lords to block Money Bills and restricted its ability to delay bills for more than two years, made as a result of the House of Lords breaking convention and throwing out Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' in 1909
1911 Parliament Act
The percentage of the Northern Irish Catholic population that supported reunification with the Republic of Ireland after the 2016 EU Membership Referendum
22%
Significant powers which are only expected to be used in exceptional circumstances such as Parliament's ability to veto legislation proposed by the government or to dismiss a government
Reserve powers
The term given by A. V. Dicey to the principal matters of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law in regards to the UK constitution
Twin Pillars
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