Indian Constitution: Key Features-2
System of Parliamentary Governance: -
The Constitution of India gives all its citizens the right to vote. The members of the Constituent Assembly felt
that the freedom struggle has made the Indian people eligible to exercise adult suffrage. They believed that this
would encourage democratic thinking and methods and at the same time the fetters of inequality based on
differences of caste, religion and gender etc. could also be broken.
In universal suffrage, the public has the right to choose a representative for himself without any discrimination.
And representatives are accountable to the public. In this way the system of parliamentary governance becomes
the system of governance of the people.
Division of powers: -
According to the constitution, there are three parts of the state- Legislature, executive and judiciary.
➢ The Legislature consists of representatives elected by the public. Those who make the law.
➢ The Executive looks after the implementation of laws and running the government.
➢ The Judiciary looks after the system of justice. Its function is to interpret the law correctly.
To prevent misuse of power by any branch of the state, a provision has been made that the powers of all these
organs will be different from each other. On the basis of this sharing of powers, each limb rests on the other limb
and thus there is a balance of power between the three limbs.
Now answer the following
Q.1 What do you understand by universal suffrage?
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Q.2. Parliamentary system of governance is the system of public governance?
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Q.3. What are the main parts of the state? What is their importance?
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Q.4 Explain "sharing of power".
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Answers
Answer:
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Explanation:
1)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.
2) India is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a Parliamentary form of government which is federal in structure with unitary features. There is a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minster as its head to advice the President who is the constitutional head of the country.
3} These definitions draw attention to the fact that the state has four essential elements. These are: (1) population, (2) territory, (3) government, (4) sovereignty (or independence). The first two elements constitute the physical or material basis of the state while the last two form its political and spiritual basis.
4} Power sharing means the distribution of power among the organs of the government such as the legislature, executive, and judiciary. Power sharing helps in achieving the stability of political order. In power-sharing, power might even be shared at distinct levels such as union, state and local.
Answer:
1) public has right to vote their representative without any discrimination.
2) yes... it is.
3) legislative, executive, judicial.
4) to prevent the misuse of power it has seperated into branches... and each branch has different power and each branch is accountable to the other.