Understanding Laws Class 8 Worksheet Civics Chapter 4

Q.1. Describe the controversial law and unpopular law with the help of an example.

Q.2. Mention the ways in which the Indians played an important role in the evolution of rule of law during colonial period.

Q.3. Explain the Domestic Violence.

Q.4. Elaborate the arguments given by the historians against the British rule of law in India.
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State two reasons why historians refute the claim that the British introduced the rule of law in India.

Q.5. Describe the ‘Rule of Law’.

Q.6. Write a short note on Rowlatt Act.

Q.7. State one reason why you think the Sedition Act of 1870 was arbitrary?

Q.8. Mention the year of Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Who gave the order to shoot the protestors?

Q.9. What was Sedition Act of 1870?

Q.10. Write in your own words what you understand by the term the ‘rule of law’. In your response include a fictitious or real example of a violation of the rule of law.

Q.11. Re-read the storyboard on how a new law on domestic violence got passed. Describe in your own words the different ways in which women’s groups worked to make this happen.

Q.12. Write in your own words what you understand by the following sentence on page 44-45: They also began fighting for greater equality and wanted to change the idea of law from a set of rules that they were forced to obey, to law as including ideas of justice.

Q.13. Describe the ways in which the citizens can express their views in relation to laws made in the Parliament.

Q.14. How was the system of law during ancient times in India?

Q.15. Mention some of the common laws that govern us.

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