Important Questions (1 Mark): Federalism - Free MCQ Test with solutions

Jammu and Kashmir have its own Constitution. Many provisions of the Indian Constitution are not applicable to this State without the approval of the State Assembly.

a) In Rajya Sabha or the Upper House of Parliament allocation of seats is made on the basis of population of each state. So option A is ruled out.

b) Seven Indian states support the bicameral legislature. Therefore, the option is correct in terms of Indian Federalism.

c) The constitution of Indian does not allow dual citizenship. Therefore, this option is ruled out.

d) Judiciary in India is independent of other branches of the government. So, this option is true in the case of the Indian Constitution.

The state governments were rescued in power-sharing by the Judiciary.

We know that the federal government is that form of government in which the government is formed of three branches legislative, executive and judiciary and hence the governmental power is divided between these different levels of government.

The concept of 'Concurrent List' in the Indian Constitution has been borrowed from the Constitution of Australia.

In this type of federalism the states have individual identity and have majority of control over their governance. USA, Switzerland and Australia are countries which combined different states together to form a country and hence an example for 'Coming Together' federation.

The distinguishing feature of a federal government is the division of powers between different levels of government.

India is federal because the powers of the union and state governments are specified in the Constitution, and they have exclusive jurisdiction over their respective subjects.

All the public money received by or on behalf of the government other than those that are covered under the Consolidated Fund, are credited to the Public Account.

Parliamentary system is there in our country.

Article 248 vests the residuary powers in the parliament. It says that Parliament has exclusive power to make any law with respect to any matter not enumerated in the Concurrent List or the State List.

China, the second-largest country in the world, with an area of 9.597 million km² and a population of 138.64 crores does not follow the federal system. China has a communist based government, having a unitary system.

All revenues received by the Union Government by way of taxes and other receipts for the conduct of Government business are credited to the Consolidated Fund of India.

Concurrent List includes subjects of common interest to both the Union Government as well as the State Governments, such as education, forest, trade unions, marriage, adoption and succession.

The existence of the three-tier system in India is the key feature of the existence of federalism. The Central government, the State government, and the Local Self Governments, i.e. the Municipalities and Panchayats at the local level, makes the governance efficient.

 Federalism is a system of government in which the power is divided between a central authority and various constituent units of the country. Usually, a federation has two levels of government.