Q1: Mention the key features of the Indian Constitution.
Ans: The key features of the Indian constitution are:
Q2: What do you mean by tyranny of majority?
Ans: Tyranny of the majority refers to unhealthy situations where a majority continuously enforces decisions that exclude minorities and go against their interests. Every society is prone to this tyranny of the majority. The Constitution usually contains rules that ensure that minorities are not excluded from anything that is routinely available to the majority. Constitution is precisely to prevent this tyranny or domination by the majority of a minority.
Q3: What are the functions of the three main organs of the government?
Ans: According to the Constitution, there are three organs of government. These are the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
Q4: Why does a democratic country need a Constitution?
Ans: A democratic country needs a Constitution because it serves several purposes.
Q5: How was the Indian Constitution made?
Ans: The long experience of authoritarian rule under the colonial state convinced Indians that free India should be a democracy in which everyone should be treated equally and be allowed to participate in government. What remained to be done then was to work out the ways in which a democratic government would be set up in India and the rules that would determine its functioning. This was done not by one person but by a group of around 300 people who became members of the Constituent Assembly in 1946 and who met periodically for the next three years to write India’s Constitution. Between December 1946 and November 1949, the Constituent Assembly drafted a constitution for independent India.
Q6: Write a brief note on the struggle for freedom in Nepal.
Ans: The country of Nepal has witnessed several people’s struggles for democracy. There was a people’s struggle in 1990 that established democracy that lasted for 12 years until 2002. In October 2002, King Gyanendra, citing the Maoist uprising in the countryside as his reason, began taking over different aspects of the government with the army’s assistance. The King then finally took over as the head of government in February 2005. In November 2005, the Maoists joined other political parties to sign a 12-point agreement. This agreement signalled to the larger public an imminent return to democracy and peace. In 2006, this people’s movement for democracy began gaining immense force. It repeatedly refused the small concessions that the King made and finally in April 2006 the King restored the Third Parliament and asked the political parties to form a government. In 2007, Nepal adopted an interim Constitution.
Q7: Listed below are the key features of the Indian Constitution. Write two sentences, in your own words, on why you think this feature is important:
Ans: Federalism
Separation of Powers
Fundamental Rights
Parliamentary Form of Government
Q8: State the six Fundamentals Rights in the Indian Constitution.
Ans: The Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution include:
Q9: Explain Right to Equality.
Ans: Right to Equality means
Q10: What is the importance of constitution?
Ans: Importance of constitution are:
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