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The Constituent Assembly met for how many days?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constituent Assembly's work was spread over:Read the answer and worked solution →The Objectives Resolution defining the Assembly's aims was moved in 1946 by:Read the answer and worked solution →India's Constitution became an exemplar most notably for:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the committee chairsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the British borrowingsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Constituent AssemblyRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the constitution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Function or makerRead the answer and worked solution →Sort dates, numbers and peopleRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Constitution bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, in the words of:Read the answer and worked solution →The word democracy comes from the Greek demokratia, where demos means:Read the answer and worked solution →The simple starting definition says democracy is a form of government in which the rulers are:Read the answer and worked solution →The kings of which country rule because they are born into the royal family, not chosen?Read the answer and worked solution →General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup in Pakistan in:Read the answer and worked solution →In 2002 Musharraf held which exercise to gain a five-year extension?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Musharraf's Legal Framework Order, the civilian cabinet was supervised by a:Read the answer and worked solution →China's parliament, the National People's Congress, has nearly how many members?Read the answer and worked solution →Before contesting Chinese elections a candidate needs the approval of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mexico elects its President every:Read the answer and worked solution →Until 2000, every Mexican election was won by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Women in Saudi Arabia did not have the right to vote until:Read the answer and worked solution →Which country's citizenship rules make it hard for its Russian minority to vote?Read the answer and worked solution →Zimbabwe attained independence from White minority rule in:Read the answer and worked solution →Zimbabwe was ruled since independence by which party?Read the answer and worked solution →Robert Mugabe was forced out of office in:Read the answer and worked solution →How many features of democracy does the summary definition list?Read the answer and worked solution →China's famine of 1958 to 1961 killed nearly:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Constituent Assembly met for how many days?

  1. 166
  2. 299
  3. 365
  4. 100
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Correct answer: A. 166

1. Sessions were open to press and public. 2. It met for one hundred and sixty-six days. 3. The work spread over two years and eleven months. _Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 1, Constitution: Why and How._

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The Constituent Assembly's work was spread over:

  1. Three years nine months
  2. Two years eleven months
  3. One year six months
  4. Four years two months
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Correct answer: B. Two years eleven months

1. Every clause was scrutinised and debated. 2. It took two years and eleven months. 3. The Assembly met for 166 days. _Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 1, Constitution: Why and How._

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The Objectives Resolution defining the Assembly's aims was moved in 1946 by:

  1. Rajendra Prasad
  2. Sardar Patel
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. B.R. Ambedkar
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Correct answer: C. Jawaharlal Nehru

1. It summed up the nationalist movement's principles. 2. Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution. 3. It promised equality, liberty, democracy and sovereignty. _Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 1, Constitution: Why and How._

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