Indian Polity Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 41

In a parliamentary system the government holds office only while it keeps the confidence of the elected House, which makes it answerable every day.

Democracy rests on the idea that ordinary citizens are capable of judging public matters and taking part in their own government.

The Preamble promises liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; economic liberty is not in that list.

The Fundamental Duties are moral obligations that the Constitution itself does not enforce, and they are not the legal counterpart of any right.

The DMK government of Tamil Nadu set up the Rajamannar Committee in 1969 to study Centre-State relations. The three-member committee was headed by Dr P.V.

The budget is presented first, examined by the departmental committees, voted through the Appropriation Bill and finally completed with the Finance Bill.

Each description belongs to a different term or says the opposite of the real rule, so no pair is correct.

Article 30(1) says that all minorities, whether based on religion or language, have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

The American historian described the Indian Constitution as a "seamless web" of three closely linked strands.

Article 263 lets the President set up an Inter-State Council by order whenever it appears that public interest would be served by it.

JP argued for a "partyless democracy" in which representatives would be chosen by the people directly, without competing political parties.

Local self-government transfers power and functions to elected bodies of the people at the village, block, district and town levels.

In 1967 the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not amend Part III to take away or abridge any Fundamental Right.

In this 1992 case, also called the Mandal case, the Supreme Court held that the creamy layer must be kept out of OBC reservation.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951 inserted the Ninth Schedule along with Article 31B. Courts had begun striking down zamindari abolition and other land reform laws for violating the right to property.

The Central Vigilance Commission was created in 1964 by a government resolution, on the advice of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption headed by K. Santhanam.

A right is a claim that the individual makes and that the State recognises and is bound to respect. In political theory, rights mark out an area of freedom that the State must not enter and conditions it must secure.

Equality means that no person or group enjoys special rights denied to others, so it implies the absence of privileges.

A private member's bill is one introduced by any MP who is not a minister, whether elected or nominated, and such bills have become law in the past.

The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2019 reduced the term of the Chairperson and the members of the Commission from five years to three years, or until they attain the age of seventy, whichever is earlier, and it also made them eligible for reappointment.