Edexcel Government and Politics Unit 2 Exam 4th June 2015

The creation of the UKSC does not place power in unelected judges, the HRA does.

110/200 an A?
Last year was 160/200 for an A?

But the HRA is apart off the constitution so...

How is "pooled sovereignty with the EU" a feature of Parliamentary sovereignty?

I would have mentioned a flat constitution (according to the orthodox Diceyan conception) in which no Acts of Parliament are 'higher' than another ("neither the Act of Union with Scotland nor the Dentists Act has more claim than the other to be supreme law" - no 'constitutional laws' (although Thoburn/HS2 suggest otherwise, but this is not expected knowledge).

Parliament can legislate on whatever it wishes - the Stephen quote about blue-eyed babies or about banning smoking on the streets of Paris.

A valid AoP cannot be questioned by the courts - Parliament is the supreme law maker (hence AoP > common laws etc).

No Parliament can bind a future Parliament.

Those are the key points I would have mentioned.

the more i think about the more i think my answer was putrid

Stop thinking about it then there's nothing you can do. You've been revising for ages though you'll do fine

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Hi guys, can anyone tell me what structure they used for the 40 mark Prime minster question?

these times i didn't have any time to finish the 40 marker, wrote 3 pages and then i wrote a message to the examiner saying "sorry ran out of time, please mark considerate. After all, I haven't slept for 48 hours. THANKSSS"

That should be fine, as long as you still mentioned how Parliament is still legally sovereign?

Did anyone mention parliament being sovereign in the sense they can leave the EU, veto legislation over government and overthrow government like James Callaghan?

I'm worried I didn't talk enough about constitutional reforms for the arguments in favour

So did I!

Felt terrible before the exam but great now

Great point, didn't mention that. Although the question asked if it sovereign nowadays, I'm sure its a valid point for in the future.

Screwed up the againsts in the PM and Prez question....

Anyone: is it a valid point to say the PM here is elected on a majority and is therefore more representative than the Pres because he is elected on more votes??

Thanks! I'm just not too sure because I didn't directly mention the constitutional reforms :/

If you mentioned EU/Devolution there was no need to reference further reforms

10 marker
- Parliament can't bind successors
- Parliament is sovereign over devolved admins
- EU law is supreme over parliament, but parliament can choose to leave the EU at any time.

25 marker
FOR
- Devolved admins in health, education, housing, etc.
- EU. Factortame.
-Referendums

AGAINST:
-Parliament still legally sovereign
- Parliament still has many powers in Scotland and Wales
- EU doesn't have much influences over areas like welfare or education.
- Referendums are mostly rubber-stamping for parliament

You could also probably mention the judiciary here.

Is there negative marking in this paper? So, if you write something that's incorrect will you lose marks or just not gain marks?

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