c. Short answer questions:
1. What is totalitarian regime?
2. What is the difference between Direct Democracy
and Representative Democracy?
3. Why is India called a Republic?
4. Why is Direct Democracy not possible in India?
5. List the basic elements of a democracy.
6. In India, the Judiciary branch is independent
of the Legislative and Executive branches.
Comment.
7. What is Universal Adult Franchise?
Answers
Answer:
Direct democracy is the form of Government in which decisions are not taken by the representatives but by the people themselves. All decisions are voted on by the people
Answer:
1) Totalitarianism is a concept for a form of government or political system that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.
2)In a representative democracy people vote for representatives who then enact policy initiatives. In direct democracy, people decide on policies without any intermediary. ... Two leading forms of direct democracy are participatory democracy and deliberative democracy.
3)Since India is a country in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, which has an elected or nominated president. Thus it is called republic.
4) In the direct democracy ,the newly established law,rules and regulations are approved by the public votes. This type of democracy is not possible in our country because; ... 2) The huge amount of population is also a major reason for which the direct democracy is not possible in our country.
5)He describes democracy as a system of government with four key elements: i) A system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; ii) Active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; iii) Protection of the human rights of all citizens.
6)Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government. That is, courts should not be subject to improper influence from the other branches of government or from private or partisan interests.
7) 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, political stance, or any other restriction, subject only to relatively minor exceptions.
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