Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 6

Ambedkar. The Drafting Committee was set up on 29 August 1947 with seven members, and Dr B.R.

Article 360 lets the President proclaim a financial emergency when the financial stability or credit of India, or of any part of it, is threatened.

The ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity in the Preamble were taken from France, where they were the watchwords of the French Revolution.

Article 361 gives this personal immunity to only two offices, the President of India and the Governor of a State.

The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 made education a Fundamental Right by inserting Article 21A, under which the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children aged six to fourteen years, in the manner it determines by law.

Under Article 171, the Governor nominates one-sixth of the members of a State Legislative Council. These members must have special knowledge or practical experience in literature, science, art, the co-operative movement or social service.

The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 inserted Article 43A, which asks the State to take steps, by suitable legislation or in any other way, to secure the participation of workers in the management of undertakings and industrial establishments.

The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988 changed Article 326, which provides for elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies on the basis of adult suffrage, and lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years.

Under Article 109 a Money Bill can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha, and after it is passed there it is sent to the Rajya Sabha, which cannot reject or amend it.

Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, deals with citizenship.

A Nyaya Panchayat is a village court for small civil and criminal disputes, a judicial body that some states created, so it is not a tier of local self-government.

The Fourth Schedule allots the seats of the Rajya Sabha, the Council of States, among the States and Union Territories.

On 24 April 1973 a 13-judge bench, the largest in the Court’s history, ruled by 7 to 6 that Parliament can amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368, including Fundamental Rights, but cannot alter or destroy its basic structure.

These words form clause (b) of Article 51A, the list of duties every citizen owes the nation.

Article 3 lets Parliament, by an ordinary law, form a new state by separating territory from a state, join states, and change the area, boundaries or name of any state.

The 42nd Amendment made that advice binding on the President. Before 1976, Article 74(1) only said there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at its head to aid and advise the President.

The first Backward Classes Commission, set up by the President under Article 340 in January 1953, was headed by the Gandhian writer Kaka Kalelkar.

Prohibition is issued by a higher court to a lower court or tribunal to stop it from acting beyond its jurisdiction.

It is the one false statement, because the Constitution creates only the Attorney General, not the Solicitor General. Article 76 provides for the Attorney General for India, the chief legal advisor to the Government and the highest law officer.

Under Article 316, the Chairman and the other members of a State Public Service Commission are appointed by the Governor.