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Law & Citizenship · Unit 3

Who Decides?

Leaders, voting and making choices together

Any group larger than a few people needs a way of making decisions that the people who lost can still live with, and this unit is about the options.

It covers leaders and representatives, voting, majority rule and its limits, local councils, and how an individual gets a say between elections.

This unit breaks down into 18 short steps and 109 questions, starting at difficulty 1 and building to 2. Below you can see exactly what it covers, how the path is structured, and worked examples with explanations.

Steps
18
Questions
109
Difficulty
1-2

What this unit covers

  • Leaders and Representatives
  • Voting
  • Majority and Minority
  • Having a Say
  • Local Councils

Where this fits

Follows Living in a Community. Elections and Democracy is the advanced version.

Where people slip

Majority rule alone is not democracy. Without protections for those who lose the vote it becomes a way for a majority to do whatever it likes, which is why rights exist alongside voting.

How the unit is structured

Who Decides? runs as 18 short steps that unlock in order. 13 are practice rounds and 5 are challenge rounds that pull together everything before them. Questions start at difficulty 1 and climb to 2 as you progress.

Step 1 · easierStep 18 · harder

Challenge rounds

Example questions

30 real questions from this unit, with the answer and the reason behind it, grouped by what they practise. There are 109 in the unit altogether.

Having a Say

  • Build the sentenceLevel 1

    1. Build a sentence about influence.

    Answer: Transparency shows who influences public decisions

    Transparency shows who influences public decisions.

  • Choose all that applyLevel 1

    2. Which are peaceful ways to ask for change? Pick all that apply.

    • Starting a petitioncorrect
    • Writing a lettercorrect
    • Speaking at a public meetingcorrect
    • Breaking windows

    Petitions, letters and speaking at meetings are all peaceful.

  • Fact or fibLevel 1

    3. Only adults are allowed to have opinions about their community.

    Answer: False

    False. Young people have views and ways to express them too.

  • Multiple choiceLevel 1

    4. What is a petition?

    • A signed request from many people for changecorrect
    • A type of vote in parliament
    • A court order
    • A tax form

    A written request signed by many people asking for something to change.

  • True or falseLevel 1

    5. Children can write to their local representative about something that matters to them.

    Answer: True

    True. Anyone can raise an issue.

  • Type the answerLevel 1

    6. What do we call gathering names in support of a request?

    Answer: signatures

    Signatures show how many people agree.

Leaders and Representatives

  • Choose all that applyLevel 1

    7. Which make a good representative? Pick all that apply.

    • Listening to everyonecorrect
    • Reporting back what happenedcorrect
    • Being honestcorrect
    • Only helping their friends

    Listening, reporting back and being honest all matter.

  • Multiple choiceLevel 1

    8. What does a leader do in a group?

    • Helps the group decide and organisecorrect
    • Does whatever they like
    • Never speaks
    • Owns the group

    A leader helps the group decide and organises what needs doing.

  • Sort into groupsLevel 1

    9. Sort each decision by who usually makes it.

    Answer: What game the class plays = The class decides; Class trip destination = The class decides; Repairing the local park = The council decides; Bin collection days = The council decides

    Decisions are made at different levels.

  • True or falseLevel 1

    10. A class representative speaks for the whole class at school meetings.

    Answer: True

    True. They carry the class view forward.

  • Type the answerLevel 1

    11. What is the group of pupils elected to speak for a school called?

    Answer: school council

    A school council represents pupils.

  • Put in orderLevel 2

    12. Put these stages of a citizens' assembly in order.

    Answer: Randomly select participants -> Hear expert evidence -> Deliberate together -> Publish recommendations -> Government responds

    Select, learn, deliberate, recommend, respond.

Local Councils

  • Choose all that applyLevel 1

    13. Which are local decisions? Pick all that apply.

    • Repairing a playgroundcorrect
    • Setting bin collection dayscorrect
    • Local parking rulescorrect
    • Signing a peace treaty

    Playground repairs, bin days and local parking are local matters.

  • Multiple choiceLevel 1

    14. How can a resident raise a local problem?

    • Contact a councillor or report it to the councilcorrect
    • Wait and hope
    • Tell nobody
    • It cannot be raised

    By contacting a councillor, reporting it to the council or attending a meeting.

  • Odd one outLevel 1

    15. Which of these is NOT a local council decision?

    • Declaring warcorrect
    • Fixing a local road
    • Opening a new library
    • Emptying the bins

    Declaring war is a national government matter.

  • True or falseLevel 1

    16. Councillors are meant to represent the people living in their area.

    Answer: True

    True. They act for their local residents.

  • Type the answerLevel 1

    17. What is a person elected to a local council called?

    Answer: councillor

    A councillor represents a local area.

  • Fact or fibLevel 2

    18. Local government decisions have little effect on daily life.

    Answer: False

    False. Schools, roads, waste and housing all shape everyday life.

Majority and Minority

  • Choose all that applyLevel 1

    19. Which show respect for people who lost a vote? Pick all that apply.

    • Listening to their reasonscorrect
    • Explaining the decisioncorrect
    • Including them next timecorrect
    • Laughing at them

    Listening, explaining and including them all show respect.

  • Fill the blankLevel 1

    20. More than half the votes is called a ____.

    • majoritycorrect
    • minority
    • petition
    • ballot

    A majority is over fifty per cent.

  • Multiple choiceLevel 1

    21. What does majority mean?

    • More than halfcorrect
    • Everybody
    • The smallest group
    • Exactly one person

    More than half of the people voting.

  • True or falseLevel 1

    22. The people who did not win a vote still matter and should be treated fairly.

    Answer: True

    True. Protecting the minority is part of fair decision making.

  • Type the answerLevel 1

    23. What is the smaller group in a vote called?

    Answer: minority

    The minority is fewer than half.

  • Fact or fibLevel 2

    24. Winning a majority gives a government unlimited power in a constitutional democracy.

    Answer: False

    False. Constitutional limits, rights and courts constrain what a majority may do.

Voting

  • Build the sentenceLevel 1

    25. Build a sentence about voting.

    Answer: Every person gets one equal vote

    Every person gets one equal vote.

  • Choose all that applyLevel 1

    26. Which help make a vote fair? Pick all that apply.

    • A secret ballotcorrect
    • One vote eachcorrect
    • Counting honestlycorrect
    • Letting some people vote twice

    Secret ballots, equal votes and honest counting all matter.

  • Multiple choiceLevel 1

    27. What is a vote?

    • A way of choosing by counting preferencescorrect
    • A type of speech
    • A punishment
    • A game

    A way for a group to choose by counting what each person wants.

  • Picture questionLevel 1

    28. 🗳️ What is being put into this box?

    • A ballot paper with a vote on itcorrect
    • A shopping list
    • A letter to a friend
    • A drawing

    A ballot paper carries someone's vote into the ballot box.

  • Put in orderLevel 1

    29. Put these steps of a class vote in order.

    Answer: Someone suggests an idea -> The class discusses it -> Everyone votes -> The votes are counted -> The class acts on the result

    Suggest, discuss, vote, count, act.

  • Fill the blankLevel 2

    30. Selecting people for public roles by lot is called ____.

    • sortitioncorrect
    • election
    • appointment
    • inheritance

    Sortition avoids campaigning entirely.

Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.

How you practise

This unit mixes 11 different question formats, so you are recalling and applying rather than recognising the same layout every time.

  • Build the sentence
  • Choose all that apply
  • Fact or fib
  • Fill the blank
  • Multiple choice
  • Odd one out
  • Picture question
  • Put in order
  • Sort into groups
  • True or false
  • Type the answer

Practise Who Decides?

109 questions across 18 steps. Start with step one and crawl at your own pace.

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