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3.1.1.1 The nature and sources of the British Constitution
3.1 Government and politics of the UK
Constitution
3.2 Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics
3.3 Political ideas
3.2.1.1 The constitutional framework of US government
US Constitution
Historical background of the US Constitution
Bicameral System
Senate
Article VI of the Constitution
Nature of the British Constitution
Sources of the British Constitution
Milestones of the British Constitution
Rule of Law
Parliamentary sovereignty
Executive branch
Judicial branch
Legislative branch (Congress)
House of Representatives
Impeachment
Ratify
Principles of the British Constitution
Unitary
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Reformation Parliament (1529–1536)
Magna Carta (1215)
Bill of Rights (1689)
Parliamentary privilege
Act of Settlement (1701)
Succession to the Crown Act 2013
Parliament Acts (1911, 1949)
Seperation of powers in the US
Checks and balances in the US
Constitutional Amendments
United States Bill of Rights (1791)
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Sixth Amendment
European Communities Act 1972
Brexit
House of Lords Act 1999
House of Lords
House of Lords Reform Act 2014
Federalism
Tenth Amendment
New Deal
1929 Wall Street Crash
Constitutional Reform Act 2005
UK Supreme Court
Miller II (2019)
Neoliberal Economics
Human Rights Act 1998
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Equality Act 2010
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
Data Protection Act 2018
European Convention on Human Rights
Safety of Rwanda Act 2024
Constitutional rights
Civil liberty
Fourteenth Amendment
habeas corpus
Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
Rights in the UK
Digital ID Cards
Declarations of Incompatibility
3.2.1.5 The electoral process and direct democracy
Electoral College
3.1.2.3 Political parties (UK)
Tamworth Manifesto (1834)
The Sun case study
Conservatives
Butskellism
National Nominating Conventions
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Green Party
Reform UK
SNP
Democrats
Republicans
Party Funding in the UK
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) 2000
Political Parties and Elections Act (PPEA) 2009
Media in the UK
3.1.1.2 The structure and role of Parliament
Parliamentary scrutiny
3.2.1.6 Political parties (US)
Minarchism
Laissez-Faire (leave alone)
Select Committees
Role of the opposition
Role of Parliament and the Execcutive
3.1.1.3 The Prime Minister and cabinet
Prime Minister
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Affordable Care Act
3.2.2.2 The executives
Civil Service
3.2.1.3 The executive branch of government: President
Powers of the President
Significance of third parties and independents
3.2.2.5 Pressure groups
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Fathers 4 Justice
Snowdrop Campaign
3.2.2.4 Electoral and party systems
Structural theory in electoral systems
Comparing policies in UK and US
Rational theory in electoral systems
Cultural theory in electoral systems
Comparing two-party system
Comparing campaign and party finance
EU
3.1.2.5 The European Union
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3.1.2.2 Elections and referendums
3.3.1.1 Liberalism
Origins of Liberalism
Core Ideas of Liberalism
Types of Liberalism
Examples of Liberalism
Key Thinkers of Liberalism
FPTP
STV
Mechanistic theory
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
AV (Alternative Vote)
SV (Supplementary Vote)
Regional (Closed) List
AMS (Additional Member System)
Thomas Hill Green
Mary Wollstonecraft
Betty Friedan
TPP Tips
John Rawls
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Hobbes
Links to this page
John Locke
Locke’s state of nature differs from
Thomas Hobbes
’s ‘nasty and brutish’ state of nature