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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 →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 →

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Fundamental Duties were added to the Constitution by which amendment?

  1. 44th Amendment
  2. 52nd Amendment
  3. 24th Amendment
  4. 42nd Amendment
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Correct answer: D. 42nd Amendment

1. The 42nd Amendment changed the Preamble and 53 articles. 2. It inserted Fundamental Duties. 3. Many opposition MPs were in jail when it passed. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Which amendments cancelled most of the changes made by the 38th, 39th and 42nd?

  1. 43rd and 44th
  2. 52nd and 91st
  3. 73rd and 74th
  4. 61st and 62nd
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Correct answer: A. 43rd and 44th

1. Congress lost the 1977 election. 2. The new government reversed the emergency amendments. 3. The 43rd and 44th restored balance. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Who is the final authority on whether an amendment violates the basic structure?

  1. The Cabinet
  2. The Judiciary
  3. Parliament
  4. The President
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Correct answer: B. The Judiciary

1. The Kesavananda ruling came in 1973. 2. Parliament can amend within limits. 3. The Judiciary decides what basic structure is. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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