Spot the power-sharing lie
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- False statement
- Most Belgians speak Sinhala
- Statements
- Sri Lanka lies in South Asia
- Belgium is a small European country
- Most Belgians speak Sinhala
- False statement
- Majoritarianism united all Sri Lankans
- Statements
- Majoritarianism united all Sri Lankans
- A 1956 Act favoured the Sinhala language
- Belgium elects a community government
- False statement
- Belgium copied Sri Lanka's majoritarianism
- Statements
- Belgium amended its constitution four times
- Belgium copied Sri Lanka's majoritarianism
- The Belgian amendments ran 1970 to 1993
- Instructions
- One statement in each set is false. Tap it.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Ch 1 'Power-sharing' (jess401)_