RL POL 2 Flashcards
●As per the Indian Constitution, the Vice Presidentwould ascend to the Presidency upon the death,resignation, ___, or other situations leading to thevacancy in the Office of President.
Impeachment
●As per the Trade Unions (Amendment) Act, 2001, notrade union of workmen shall be registered unlessat least 10% or 100, whichever is less, subject to aminimum of __ workmen engaged or employed inthe establishment or industry with which it isconnected are the members of such trade union.
7
●The Constitution of India forbids dual citizenship ordual nationality, except for ___ where the secondnationality was involuntarily acquired.
Minors
●The Estimates Committee consists of 30 memberswho are elected by the Lok Sabha every year fromamongst its members. Who is not eligible forelection to this Committee?
A Minister
●The minimum age for a person to become a memberof Rajya Sabha is 30 years. The minimumqualifying age for membership of the Lok Sabhais ____.
25 years
●The President of India has the power to declare threetypes of emergency. They are NationalEmergency, State Emergency and ____.
Financial Emergency
●The Right of Children to Free and CompulsoryEducation Act or Right to Education Act (RTE),which was passed by the Indian parliament onAugust 4, 2009, describes the modalities of theimportance of free and compulsory education forchildren between ___.
6 and 14 years
●The Untouchability Offences Act of ___ (renamed toProtection of Civil Rights Act in 1976) providedpenalties for preventing a person from entering aplace of worship or from taking water from a tankor well.
1955
●What is the name for a British socialist organizationwhose purpose is to advance the principles ofdemocratic socialism via gradualist and reformist,rather than revolutionary means?
FabianSociety
●Under the Indian legal system, jurisdiction to issue___ is given to the Supreme Court, and to theHigh Courts of Judicature of all Indian states.
Prerogative writs
●Which constitution inspired details on theindependence of judiciary, judicial review,fundamental rights, and the removal of SupremeCourt and High Court judges in the IndianConstitution?
U.S. Constitution
●With its adoption, the Union of India officiallybecame the modern and contemporary Republicof India and it replaced the ___ as the country’sfundamental governing document.
Governmentof India Act 1935
●An election to fill a vacancy in the office of Presidentis held as soon as possible after, and in no caselater than ______ from, the date of occurrence ofthe vacancy.
Six months
●From which document were such features as office ofgovernor, power of federal judiciary, emergencypowers etc were drawn into the Constitution ofIndia?
Government of India Act of 1935
●The Attorney General of India is the Indiangovernment’s chief legal advisor, and its primarylawyer in the Supreme Court of India. Whoappoints him?
President of India
●The Indian citizenship and nationality law and theConstitution of India provide single citizenship forall of India. The provisions relating to citizenshipupon adoption of the constitution are contained inArticles 5 to 11 in ____ of the Constitution of India.
Part II
●Which Article in the Constitution of India, belongingto the Directive Principles of State Policy, dealswith separation of judiciary from executive?
Article 50
●Which Article of the Indian Constitution states thatsix months must not intervene between the lastsitting in one session and the first sitting in thesucceeding session?
Article 85
●Which article was added to Indian Constitution by25th amendment act, which gives the directiveprinciples in article 39 (b) and (c) primacy overfundamental rights guaranteed under article 14 &19 of the Indian Constitution?
Article 31-c
●Which part of the Indian Constitution defines thepower distribution between the federalgovernment (the Centre) and the States in India?
Part XI
●Which was the first programme launched byGovernment of India to implement the article 47of the Directive Principles of State Policy?
Community Development Programme
●Zero Hour is the Indian innovation in the field ofparliamentary procedures and has been inexistence since ____.
1962
●Which section of Representation of People Act, 1951deals with Registration with the ElectionCommission of associations and bodies as politicalparties?
Section 29A
●As provided in the Indian Constitution, MinorityEducational Institutions are entitled to exerciserights enshrined in ___ of the Constitution.
Article 30 (1)
●Indian passports are required to be surrendered byall Indian citizens upon acquisition of foreignnationality in accordance with the Citizenship Act,1955 and the Passport Act, ___ to prevent theirmisuse.
1967
●The first Law Commission was established during theBritish regime in 1834 by the Charter Act of 1833.In which year was the first Law Commission ofindependent India established?
1955
●The first Administrative Reforms Commissionheaded by ___ had recommended for theestablishment of Lokpal and Lokayuktainstitutions at the Central and State levelrespectively.
Morarji Desai
●What is the legal/political term for false judicialproceedings in which no rights of defence to theaccused is given by invoking the expediencyclause?
Kangaroo Court
●The 99th amendment Bill sought to protect the rightsof the non-tribals in the Bodo Territorial Council(BTC) by keeping intact the existingrepresentation of the scheduled tribes andnonscheduled tribes in the ___ legislative assemblyfrom the BTC Areas district?
Assam
●What is the term for a parliamentary session which isconducted after election of new members butbefore they are installed and in which themembers participate for last time because offailure to re-election?
Lame Duck session
●____ is the study of the basic concepts, precepts andfundamental principles of law and legal systemsthat acquire the basic principles of morality,justice and human dignity in the modern society.
Jurisprudence
●Which constitutional amendment in India broughtServices in India under the purview of ValueAdded Tax system?
95th amendment
●The Constitution (One Hundred Fifth) AmendmentBill, 2006 sought to exclude Bihar from purview ofarticle ____ and to extend the provision of thisarticle to Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
Article164 (1)
●An Emergency due to the failure of the constitutionalmachinery in the states (Article 356) is popularlyknown as ‘President’s Rule’, -____ or’constitutional Emergency.’
‘State Emergency’
●Article ____ empowers the president to issue aproclamation, if he is satisfied that a situation hasarisen in which the government of a state cannotbe carried on in accordance with the provisions ofthe Constitution.
356
“●Article ____ states that Parliament may by lawestablish a Contingency Fund in the nature of animpress to be entitled ““the Contingency Fund ofIndia”” and that Legislature of a State may by lawestablish a Contingency Fund.”
267
●Child labour is considered a gross violation of thespirit and provisions of the constitution. ___,practised in the past by landlords, has beendeclared a crime and is punishable by law.
Begar
●Quorum is the minimum number of membersrequired to be present in the House before it cantransact any business. It is ____ of the totalnumber of members in each House including thepresiding officer.
one-tenth
●The ____ Amendment Act of 1978 substituted thewords ‘armed rebellion’ for ‘internaldisturbance’, making it impossible to declare aNational Emergency on the ground of ‘internaldisturbance’ as was done in 1975.
44th
●The ____ can abolish a legislative council (where italready exists) or create it (where it does notexist), if the legislative assembly of the concernedstate passes a resolution to that effect.
Parliament
●The 15th Amendment Act, ____, raised retirementage of judges from 60 to 62 and other minoramendments for rationalizing interpretation ofrules regarding judges etc.
1963
●The Inter-State Water Disputes Act, ____, empowersthe Central government to set up an ad hoctribunal for the adjudication of a dispute betweentwo or more states in relation to the waters of inInter-state River or river valley.
1956
●The maximum strength of the House envisaged by theConstitution is ____ - up to 530 members torepresent the States, up to 20 members torepresent the Union territories and not more thantwo members of the Anglo-Indian Community tobe nominated by the President.
552
●The phrase ‘basic structure’ itself cannot be found inthe Constitution. The Supreme Court recognisedthis concept for the first time in the historicKesavananda Bharati case in ____.
1973
●The President holds office for a term of five yearsfrom the date on which he enters upon his office.However, he can resign from his office at any timeby addressing the resignation letter to the ____.
Vice-president
●The Rajya Sabha (first constituted in ____) is acontinuing chamber, that is, it is a permanentbody and not subject to dissolution. However, one-third of its members retire every second year.
1952
●Though the Swarn Singh Committee suggested theincorporation of ____ Fundamental Duties in theConstitution, the 42nd Constitutional AmendmentAct (1976) included ten Fundamental Duties.
Eight
●The Constitution of Public Accounts Committee firstsuggested by the Webley Commission in 1896 nowhas 15 members from Lok Sabha and ____ fromRajya Sabha.
7
●____ Constitutional Amendment Act has provided forconstitutional status for the Panchayati Raj, onethird reservations for women, a separate list ofsubjects, and a separate Ministry in the Centre.
73rd
●In the Indian Constitution, Judicial Review is dealtunder ___. Judicial Review actually refers that theConstitution is the supreme power of the nationand all laws are under its supremacy.
Article 13
●In ____ the National Commission to Review theWorking of the Constitution (NCRWC) was setupto look into updating the Constitution of India.
2001
●Which Article of the Indian Constitution is concernedwith the time of holding election to fill vacancy inthe office of Vice-President and the term of officeof person elected to fill casual vacancy?
Article68
●It was in 1934 that the idea of a Constituent Assemblyfor India was put forward for the first time by___, a pioneer of communist movement in Indiaand an advocate of radical democratism.
M. N.Roy
●Article ____ of the Indian Constitution states that theState shall not discriminate against any citizen ongrounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place ofbirth or any of them.
15
●The development of constitutional rights in India wasinspired by historical documents such asEngland’s Bill of Rights, the United States Bill ofRights and _____ Declaration of the Rights ofMan.
France’s
●Both Houses of Parliament have a similar committeestructure, with a few exceptions. Theirappointment, terms of office, functions andprocedure of conducting business is regulated asper rules made by the two Houses under Article_____of the Constitution.
118(1)
●The current notion of state sovereignty were laiddown in the Treaty of ______(1648), which, in relation to states, codified the basicprinciples of territorial integrity, borderinviolability, and supremacy of the state (ratherthan the Church).
Westphalia
“●Under ___ of the Constitution of India, it is statedthat ““The Government of India may sue or besued by the name of the Union of India””.”
Article300
●The Constitution originally provided for the right toproperty under Articles 19 and ___. Article 19guaranteed to all citizens the right to acquire, holdand dispose of property.
31
●According to which Article of the Constitution, alldoubts and disputes arising out of or in connectionwith the election of a President or Vice-Presidentshall be inquired into and decided by the SupremeCourt?
Article 71
●National emergency is caused by war, externalaggression or armed rebellion in the whole ofIndia or a part of its territory. Such an emergencywas declared in India in 1962 (Indo-China War),1971 (Indo-Pakistan war), and ____.
1975
●In October 1957, which committee suggested theorganization of Panchayati Raj in rural India?
Balwant Rai Mehta
●The Lokayukta and Upalokayukta Act was firstpassed in the state of
Maharashtra
“●Who said, ““Socialism is like a hat that has lost itsshape because everybody wears it”” ?”
C.E.M.Joad
“●Who supported the principle of ““survival of thefittest””?”
The Fascists
●For which commission, there is no provision in theIndian Constitution?
Planning Commission
●Which is the first state in India to enact the FoodSecurity Act?
Chhattisgarh
●Which article of the Indian Constitution provides forequal opportunities for all citizen in Publicemployment ?
Article-16
●Taxes on professions can be levied by
Stategovernment only
●The opposite to democratic state is
Despotism
●What is the system of Local Self Government in thePanchayati Raj set up ?
Three tier structure atvillage,
●From which language, has the term ‘democracy’ beenderived ?
Greek
●Which is an example of direct democracy in India ?
Gram Sabha
●An ordinance issued by the Governor, without theapproval of the State Legislature shall be effectivefor a period of
Six weeks
●For which tax, was constitutional status given muchlater after its introduction in a small way in 1994 -95?
Taxes on Services
●Under which Article of the Indian Constitution, thedecision of the Central Administrative Tribunalcan be challenged in the Supreme Court?
323 A
●Which is the example for Plural Executive ?
Switzerland
●In which part of the Indian Constitution, thefundamental duties are enshrined ?
IV A
●Who enjoys the rank of Cabinet Minister in UnionCabinet ?
Deputy Chairman of PlanningCommission (Now, NITI Aayog)
●A civil servant in India may exercise political libertyby
exercising his franchise
●The term ‘Law’ used in the phrase ‘Rule of Law’refers to
Common law
●Where do we find the ideals of Indian democracy inthe Constitution?
The Preamble
●Which Article of the Indian Constitution directs theState Governments to organise VillagePanchayats?
Article 40
●The Attorney General of India has the right ofaudience in
any Court of Law within India
●The impeachment of the President can be initiated in
either House of Parliament
●The Head of the Armed Forces in India is the
President
●The maximum number of Lok Sabha seats are from
Uttar Pradesh
●The authority to alter the boundaries of states inIndia rests with:
Parliament
●The president can nominate two members of the LokSabha to give representation to
The Anglo-Indians
●Electoral disputes arising out of Presidential andVice-Presidential elections are settled by:
Supreme Court of India
●Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, was declared elected as____ President of India on 22nd July 2012.
13th
●Which amendment to the Constitution of India madethe Right to Education a fundamental right forchildren in the age group of 6-14 years?
86th
●Who was the first Chairman of the PlanningCommission of India?
Jawahar Lal Nehru
●Who is the head to transact the business of the LokSabha?
Speaker of Lok Sabha
●Which Indian President was the Speaker of theFourth Lok Sabha?
N. Sanjeeva Reddy
●Division of Powers and Independent Judiciary are thetwo important features of
Democratic form ofGovernment
●Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?
Machiavelli
●Under which Article of the Constitution of India, canthe fundamental rights of the members of theArmed Forces be specifically restricted?
Article33
●Who presides over the Joint Session of IndianParliament?
Speaker of Lok Sabha
lWho has the authority to call a joint session of the twoHouses of Parliament ?
President
“●The provision, ““Protection of monuments and placesand objects of national importance”” is a :”
Directive Principle of State Policy of theConstitution of India
●The Seventh schedule of the Constitution of Indiacontains provisions regarding :
Union, State,Concurrent Lists
●The President of India is elected by the members ofan electoral college consisting of elected membersof :
Both Houses of Parliament; The LegislativeAssemblies of the States
●The responsibility of preparation of electoral rolls inIndia rests with :
The Election Commission
●What is common to Sardar Hukum Singh, JagjivanRam, Inderjit Gupta, Somnath Chatterjee andSeth Govind Das?
They were Pro-tem Speakersof the Lok Sabha
●The purpose of Adjournment motion in ourParliament is :
To allow a discussion on adefinite matter of urgent public importance.
●The concept of Concurrent List in IndianConstitution is borrowed from the Constitution of
Australia
●Under which Article of the Constitution can anindividual move to the Supreme Court directly incase of any violation of Fundamental Rights?
Article 32
