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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 person has full and equal membership of a political community. What is this status called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1789 event is named as an early violent struggle for citizens' rights against monarchy?Read the answer and worked solution →Black South Africans fought a long struggle for equal citizenship. Until when did it continue?Read the answer and worked solution →The slogan Mumbai for Mumbaikars illustrates which tension in citizenship?Read the answer and worked solution →Segregation Laws in the southern USA sparked which 1950s movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther King Jr compared segregation to a disease on the body politic. Which?Read the answer and worked solution →Which British sociologist defined citizenship in his 1950 book Citizenship and Social Class?Read the answer and worked solution →Marshall saw citizenship as involving which three kinds of rights?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Marshall, which rights protect life, liberty and property?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Marshall describe social class?Read the answer and worked solution →A national policy on urban street vendors was framed in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →Olga Tellis filed a Public Interest Litigation in 1985 against which body?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Olga Tellis case the Supreme Court held that the right to life under Article 21 includes the right to:Read the answer and worked solution →In Zimbabwe about 4,400 white families owned what share of agricultural land?Read the answer and worked solution →Sikh boys wanting to wear turbans to school faced controversy in which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Children of Turkish workers born in which country demand automatic citizenship?Read the answer and worked solution →Where in the Indian Constitution are the provisions on citizenship found?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is NOT a way of acquiring Indian citizenship named in the text?Read the answer and worked solution →Which UN office was created to help refugees and stateless people?Read the answer and worked solution →India gave refuge to the Dalai Lama and his followers in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Supporters of global citizenship point to help for tsunami victims as a sign of what?Read the answer and worked solution →India defines itself as which kind of nation state?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Catch the amendment rules

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Half total House
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    2/3 of voters
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    No joint session
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    No Pres return
  5. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Article 368
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Needs referendum
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Joint session ok
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Pres can return
  9. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    All States agree
Category
True rule
Instructions
Catch the true rules for amending the Constitution. Let the false ones fall.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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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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