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In which country can the people themselves initiate a constitutional amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three amendments, passed during the 1975 Emergency, are considered the most controversial?Read the answer and worked solution →The 42nd Amendment extended the Lok Sabha term from five years to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Fundamental Duties were added to the Constitution by which amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which amendments cancelled most of the changes made by the 38th, 39th and 42nd?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is the final authority on whether an amendment violates the basic structure?Read the answer and worked solution →Is the basic structure doctrine written in the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2000 a commission reviewed the working of the Constitution. Who chaired it?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the amendment rulesRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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In which country can the people themselves initiate a constitutional amendment?

  1. Switzerland
  2. United States
  3. India only
  4. United Kingdom
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Correct answer: A. Switzerland

1. Many constitutions use special majorities. 2. Some let people participate. 3. In Switzerland people can initiate amendments. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Which three amendments, passed during the 1975 Emergency, are considered the most controversial?

  1. 61st, 91st and 101st
  2. 38th, 39th and 42nd
  3. 1st, 2nd and 3rd
  4. 73rd, 74th and 86th
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Correct answer: B. 38th, 39th and 42nd

1. They came during the internal emergency from June 1975. 2. The 38th, 39th and 42nd sought basic changes. 3. The 43rd and 44th later reversed most of them. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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The 42nd Amendment extended the Lok Sabha term from five years to what?

  1. Four years
  2. Ten years
  3. Six years
  4. Seven years
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Correct answer: C. Six years

1. The 42nd Amendment was wide ranging. 2. It stretched the Lok Sabha term to six years. 3. It also curbed judicial review. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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