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Pop the Emergency amendmentsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the amendmentsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the majoritiesRead the answer and worked solution →Parliament alone or States tooRead the answer and worked solution →Kinds of amendmentRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Amendment bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A constitution whose preamble says its people desire peace for all time is popularly called the peace constitution. Which country's is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Article of the Japanese Constitution renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation?Read the answer and worked solution →Who called the Constituent Assembly a nation on the move, throwing away the shell of its past?Read the answer and worked solution →Who protested against curtailment of press freedom by the colonial state early in the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which infamous colonial law, opposed by the national movement, sought to deny freedom from arbitrary arrest?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian liberalism differs from classical western liberalism because it is always linked to what?Read the answer and worked solution →The western idea that state and religion must stay out of each other's affairs is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism lets the state intervene in or abstain from religion depending on which promotes liberty and equality. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Affirmative action began in the USA after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. How much earlier had India entrenched it constitutionally?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution of India Bill of 1895 was the first non-official attempt at what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1928 report reaffirmed that every person of either sex aged twenty-one could vote?Read the answer and worked solution →Special provisions for the North-East under Article 371 anticipate which concept?Read the answer and worked solution →Article 371A gives special status to which North-Eastern State?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Constitution reject separate electorates based on religion?Read the answer and worked solution →Who said the main objective was to evolve one community in India, forgetting majority and minority?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is NOT one of the three main criticisms of the Indian Constitution described?Read the answer and worked solution →Who complained in the Constituent Assembly that they wanted the music of Veena or Sitar but got an English band?Read the answer and worked solution →As early as which year were Dalits in northern India noted using the new legal system to sue landlords?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is listed as a limitation of the Indian Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →Basic socio-economic rights were placed in which part of the Constitution rather than in fundamental rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Because its core features let it grow with society, the Constitution is described as a:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the core featuresRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the liberal thinkersRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the Emergency amendments

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Other terms
  1. 43rd
  2. 44th
  3. 61st
  4. 73rd
Matching terms
  1. 38th
  2. 39th
  3. 42nd
Instructions
Pop the amendments passed during the 1975 Emergency.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Run the amendments

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Questions
  1. Correct
    42nd
    Choices
    1. 42nd
    2. 61st
    3. 52nd
  2. Correct
    61st
    Choices
    1. 42nd
    2. 61st
    3. 52nd
  3. Correct
    52nd
    Choices
    1. 42nd
    2. 61st
    3. 52nd
  4. Correct
    15th
    Choices
    1. 15th
    2. 42nd
    3. 44th
  5. Correct
    44th
    Choices
    1. 38th
    2. 44th
    3. 42nd
  6. Correct
    1973
    Choices
    1. 1949
    2. 1950
    3. 1973
Instructions
Pick the lane with the amendment that did each thing.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Slice the majorities

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Does not match the category
  1. Referendum
  2. Unanimous
  3. Governor
  4. Veto
Matches the category
  1. Half House
  2. Two thirds
  3. 273 MPs
  4. Half St.
Instructions
Slice only the majorities that matter for an amendment.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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