CH-4 Understanding Laws
1. A government official helps his son go into hiding because his son has been given a ten-year jail sentence by a District Court for a crime that he has committed. Do you think that the government official’s actions were right? Should his son be exempt from the law just because his father is economically and politically powerful?
2. Write a short description of the Rowlatt Act.
3. What is the Sedition Act of 1870?
4. Define in your own words the “rule of law.” Cite an example of the violation of the rule of law.
5. Why do historians refute the claim that the British introduced the Rule of Law in India? Justify with reasons.
6. State one reason why you think the Sedition Act of 1870 was arbitrary? In what ways does the Sedition Act of 1870 contradict the rule of law?
7. How do new laws come about?
8. What do you understand by ‘domestic violence’? List the two rights that the new law helped achieve for women who are survivors of violence.
9. Can you list one process that was used to make more people aware of the need for this law?
10. What are the two different ways in which people lobbied the parliament?
11. Describe the significant changes that were introduced by the Hindu Succession Amendment Act 2005.
12. How did the new law on domestic violence get passed? Describe in your own words the different ways in which women’s groups worked to make this happen.
13. Write in your own words what you understand by the following sentence: They also began fighting for greater equality and wanted to change the idea of law from a set of rules that they were forced to obey, to the law as including ideas of justice.
14. Explain the term “Repression.”
15. What is meant by “Evolution?”
16. What are some of the common laws that govern us?
17. What was the procedure of making laws in ancient times in India?
18. What are the ways in which the citizens can express their views in relation to laws made in Parliament?
19. Who has an important role to play while helping the parliament to frame laws? Cite reasons.
20. Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1964 state.
Answers
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2.Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial.
3.A deals with sedition, and was introduced by the British colonial government in 1870. It says that the act of Sedition is to bring hatred or contempt towards the Government established by law in India. In this case, the punishment may be of imprisonment for life and fine, or imprisonment for 3 years and fine.
4.In your response include a fictitious or real example of a violation of the rule of law. Answer: The rule of the law means that all laws apply equally to all citizens of the country, and nobody is above the law. ... Even the President of India has to obey the rule of law.
