Indian Polity Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 22

Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly on 13 December 1946, and the Assembly adopted it on 22 January 1947.

Article 51A, the only article in Part IV-A, lists the Fundamental Duties of every citizen of India. The Fundamental Duties were added by the 42nd Amendment of 1976 on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee, and the idea was borrowed from the Constitution of the former USSR.

The Speaker does not vote in the first instance; under Article 100 the Speaker has only a casting vote when there is a tie.

This statement is not correct: the Preamble is non-justiciable, so its provisions cannot be enforced in a court. The Preamble is an introduction that sets out the source of authority ("We, the people of India"), the nature of the state and the objectives of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

The 44th Amendment of 1978 removed 'internal disturbance' from Article 352 and put 'armed rebellion' in its place.

Article 14 guarantees equality before law to every person, and Article 15 forbids the State to discriminate on grounds of sex, among others.

Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth) Amendment Act, 2002, not by the Eighty-fifth.

This statement is incorrect because the Constitution places no bar on re-electing a Vice-President; he may be elected any number of times.

Some Fundamental Rights are given only to citizens of India, while others are available to every person on Indian soil, including foreigners.

Members of the Rajya Sabha from the states are not elected by the people directly; they are elected by the elected members of the state Legislative Assemblies, so this statement is not correct.

All three are grounds listed in Article 19(2) on which the State may place reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech and expression.

. Insurance is in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule, so the statement that it is not there is incorrect.

A new state is created, or a state's boundaries changed, by an ordinary law of Parliament under Article 3, passed by a simple majority.

This statement is wrong: the Benami law is enforced by the Income Tax Department, not the ED. The Directorate of Enforcement, set up in 1956, is a specialised financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, with its headquarters in New Delhi.

The Punchhi Commission recommended that the President should decide on a State bill reserved by the Governor within six months.

Venkatachaliah. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution was set up by the Union government in February 2000 under Justice M.N.

Constitutional government means limited government: those in power can act only within the limits that the constitution lays down. The essence of constitutionalism is that state power is restrained by a higher law, so that rights are protected and authority cannot be used arbitrarily.

When the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, its Preamble declared India a Sovereign Democratic Republic.

Article 39(c), one of the Directive Principles in Part IV, directs the State to ensure that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment.

In a liberal democracy the surest protection of individual liberty is to divide state power among the legislature, the executive and the judiciary so that no single body can make, carry out and judge the law all at once.