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State PSC Constitutional Development — practice questions

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Complete the definition of a constitutionRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: what a constitution doesRead the answer and worked solution →Order the making of India's ConstitutionRead the answer and worked solution →Dates of the Constituent AssemblyRead the answer and worked solution →Before or after Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: how the Assembly was chosenRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the first function of a constitutionRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reasonRead the answer and worked solution →Two are true, one is notRead the answer and worked solution →Three of these are wrong. Find the one that holds.Read the answer and worked solution →Tap every function of a constitution the chapter namesRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: date or body with what it marksRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Rule, body, or date?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading the definitions backRead the answer and worked solution →A club writes down rules everyone must follow on who leads and what they may do. For a country, such rules are its:Read the answer and worked solution →Nelson Mandela and seven other leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment in:Read the answer and worked solution →After how many years in prison did Mandela walk out a free man?Read the answer and worked solution →The system of racial discrimination unique to South Africa was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate buses, hospitals, schools and beaches for whites and blacks was called:Read the answer and worked solution →The umbrella body that led the struggle against apartheid was the:Read the answer and worked solution →The new national flag of the Republic of South Africa was unfurled at midnight on:Read the answer and worked solution →Constitution rules work only if the election winner:Read the answer and worked solution →Who gave themselves a constitution after a War of Independence against Great Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people were killed in partition related violence?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1928, who drafted a constitution for India with eight other Congress leaders?Read the answer and worked solution →The socialist revolution in which country inspired Indians to think of social and economic equality?Read the answer and worked solution →Indians took the ideal of parliamentary democracy from Britain and the Bill of Rights from the:Read the answer and worked solution →The body of elected representatives that drafted India's constitution was the:Read the answer and worked solution →How many members did the Constituent Assembly that wrote the Indian constitution have?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Complete the definition of a constitution

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Missing parts
  1. Answer
    fundamental
    Choices
    1. fundamental
    2. temporary
    3. local
  2. Answer
    governed
    Choices
    1. governed
    2. divided
    3. funded
Complete the statement
A constitution is a body of {0} principles according to which a state is constituted or {1}.
The chapter's own wording. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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True or false: what a constitution does

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The first function of a constitution is to allow minimal coordination among members of a society.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    It provides a set of basic rules.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    It governs the allocation of power in society.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A constitution is a body of fundamental principles.
  5. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    A constitution deals only with elections.
Its first function is coordination, before anything about rights. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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Order the making of India's Constitution

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Steps
  1. Provincial Legislative Assemblies are set up under the Government of India Act, 1935
  2. Their members indirectly elect the Constituent Assembly
  3. The Assembly holds its first sitting on 9 December 1946 for undivided India
  4. Partition changes the country it is writing for
  5. It reassembles as the Constituent Assembly for divided India on 14 August 1947
Two sittings, either side of Partition. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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