8. What are the essential features of the parliamentary form of Government ?
9. Name a foreign country which has the parliamentary form of Government.
10. Why were the Directive Principles of State Policy Incorporated in the Constitution of India?
11.What do you mean by Universal Adult Franchise?
12. Why has the Indian Constitution provided for joint electorate ?
Structured Essay Type Questions
1. Why is the Indian Constitution so lengthy?
2. Explain the following features of the Constitution of India :
(a) Sovereign Democratic Republic
(b) A Secular State
(c)Fundamental Rights of the Citizens
d) A Single Citizenship
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Explanation:
8) In a parliamentary system, laws are made by majority vote of the legislature and signed by the head of state, who does not have an effective veto power. In most parliamentary democracies, the head of state can return a bill to the legislative body to signify disagreement with it.
9) Countries with parliamentary democracies may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (such as Denmark, Norway, Japan, Malaysia, Sweden and the United Kingdom), or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president ...
10) they were incorporated in our Constitution in order to provide economic justice and to avoid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people. Therefore, no government can afford to ignore them.
11) Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote to all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or any other restriction, subject only to relatively minor exceptions.
12) This system was introduced by the Constitution of India in 1950 and was supposed to be in place for the first 10 years, to ensure participation in politics by these groups which were deemed weak, marginalized, under-represented and needing special protection.
13) The Constitution of India is so lengthy because the Constitution makers strived to make a perfect Constitution. They borrowed many salient features from the Constitutions of other countries and modified them to suit the conditions and needs of the country, so far the constitution of India is lengthy.
14) The basic structure of the Constitution i.e. its most fundamental features can be described as: Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles, Secularism, Federalism, Republicanism, Independence of Judiciary, Rule of Law, and Liberal Democracy