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For the last fifty years the political scene has been controlled by the
Conservative and Labour Parties. The party in power determines the home
and foreign policy of the country.
constitutional monarchs, powers, making laws, federation, Acts of
Parliament, written constitution, to take advice, assembly, Magna
Charta

Task7. Read the text. For questions 1-10, choose the answer (A, B,C
or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

Constitution - the Standard of Legitimacy
Constitution is the body or doctrines and practices that form the
fundamental organizing principles of a political state.
In some states, such as the United States, the constitution is a
specific written document; in others, such as the United Kingdom, it is a
collection of documents, statutes, and traditional practices that are
generally accepted as governing political matters.
States that have written constitutions may also have a body of
traditional or customary practices that may or may not be considered to be
of constitutional standing. Virtually every state claims to have a
constitution, but not every government conducts itself in a consistently
constitutional manner.
In its wider sense, the term 'constitution' means the whole scheme
whereby a country is governed: and this includes much else besides law.
In its narrower sense, 'constitution' means the leading legal rules,
usually collected into some document that comes to be almost venerated
as
'The Constitution.' It is necessary to consider the extra legal rules,
customs, and conventions that grow up around the formal document.
Written Constitutions. In most Western countries the constitution,
using the term in the narrower sense, is a scheme of government that has
been deliberately adopted by the people; examples are the Constitution of
the United Slates, drawn up in 1787 and ratified in 1789 and still in
essentials unchanged; the constitution of the Weimar Republic or that of
the Federal Republic of Germany, brought into force in 1949; and the
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