SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: Polity - 3 - SSC CGL MCQ

Plural voting is the practice whereby one person might be able to vote multiple times in an election.

Voting is the process of selecting representatives.

73^rd Constitutional amendment act is related to provide 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all states having population of over 20 lakh.

Impeachment of the president for violation of consititution of India may start in either of the two houses of the Parliament.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the first speaker of Lok Sabha.

The Article 324 of the Indian constitution basically empowers the Election Commission to exercise its power to prevent criminals and corrupt  persons from entering politics.

If the President wants to resign he/she shall address his letter of resignation to the Vice-President.

The States Reorganisation Act was enacted on 31 August 1956. It was a major reform of the boundaries of India’s states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines.

Article 335: Allows relaxation in qualifying marks for admission in educational institutes or promotions for SCs/STs.

The Members of the Constituent Assembly which enacted the constitution of India were elected by the legislative assemblies of various provinces.

As per a rticle 56 of Indian Constitution, President’s resignation letter is accepted by the Vice President of India. In case Vice President’s position is vacant, the resignation letter is to be handed over to the Chief Justice of India.

The Fundamental Rights are defined in Part III of the Constitution which apply to every Indian citizen irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste, creed or gender.

"Kinship" says MacIver, creates society and society at length creates the state."

If the Union Parliament is to assume legislative power over and subject included in the state list, the resolution to the effect has to be passed by Rajya Sabha.

Article 167 defines the duties of the chief minister.

Cabinet collective respon sibility is con stitution al convention in governments is that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them. This support includes voting for the government in the legislature. Cabinet collective responsibility is related to the fact that, if a vote of no confidence is passed in parliament, the government is responsible collectively, and thus the entire government resigns.

Switzerland is a small country located in the heart of western Europe, at the intersection of German, French and Italian language and culture. Switzerland has been multicultural in its own way for centuries. Direct Democracy in particular, has a long, but not undisputed tradition in this country. Switzerland's unique political system is today world's most stable democratic system, offering a maximum of participation to citizens.

John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

Germany and Switzerland are the judges of the federal court elected by the two Houses of the Federal Lagislature.

The Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Once appointed, justices have life tenure unless they resign, retire, take senior status, or are removed after impeachment (though no justice has ever been removed).

The parliament of India has power to add a new state to the Union of India. This is done by collecting votes of Members of Parliament in the favour of new state.

The Parliament has the power to create all India Services.

The Provisional Parliament of India was consisted of 313 members. The Constitutional Assembly of India was introduced in 1934. This will become the major assembly to draft constitution for India (Including present day Pakistan and Bangladesh). Members of this assembly was indirectly elected representatives from across the India. It consists of the members of Congress and Muslim League.The first official meeting of this Constituent Assembly was held on 9 Dec, 1946 while the last meeting was held on 24 Jan, 1950. On 26th Jan, 1950, the day when Constitution of India finally took in effect, Constitutional Assembly was renamed as Provisional Parliament of India.This Provisional Parliament was dissolved after the first general election of India in 1952.

The concept of Judicial Review in the Constitution of India is borrowed from USA. In the Indian constitution, Judicial review is dealt with under Article 13. Judicial Review refers that the Constitution is the supreme power of the nation and all laws are under its supremacy.

In the Constitution of India, the budget is known as Annual Financial Statement. The Union Budget of India, referred to as the Annual Financial Statement[1] in Article 112 of the Constitution of India, is the annual budget of the Republic of India, presented each year on the last working day of February by the Finance Minister of India in Parliament. The budget, which is presented by means of the Financial Bill and the Appropriation bill has to be passed by the House before it can come into effect on April 1, the start of India's financial year.

New Zealand has parliamentary form of government. A parliamentary system of government means that the executive branch of government must have the direct or indirect support of the parliament. This support is usually shown by a vote of confidence. The relationship between the executive and the legislature in a parliamentary system is called responsible government. Parliamentary systems usually have a head of government and a head of state. The head of government is the prime minister, who has the real power.
The head of state often is an elected (either popularly or through parliament) president or, in the case of a constitutional monarchy, hereditary.

Liberty means absence of restraint and assures freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.

Vice President acts as President only for a maximum period of six months within which a new president to be elected. While acting as a President or discharging the functions of president, he/she doesn't perform the duties of the office of the chairman of RajyaSabha.
During this period, those duties are performed by the deputy Chairman of RajyaSabha.

A system of government in which the powers of the president are constitutionally separate from those of the legislature.

The  method of amending the Constitution by popular veto is found in Switzerland.