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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 →The Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949 and came into effect on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Drafting Committee that prepared the draft constitution was chaired by:Read the answer and worked solution →Nehru's tryst with destiny speech was given at the stroke of midnight on:Read the answer and worked solution →The short statement of basic values that begins the Constitution is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Most countries begin their constitutions with a preamble, taking inspiration from which model?Read the answer and worked solution →The Preamble is described as the ___ of the Indian Constitution.Read the answer and worked solution →The words Socialist and Secular were added to the Preamble by which amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the South Africa storyRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real wordRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the constitution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →India or South AfricaRead the answer and worked solution →Which yearRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Constitution bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A candidate wins her seat with 38 percent of votes, more than anyone else but not a majority. India's system allowing this is:Read the answer and worked solution →The FPTP system is also called the:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1984 the Congress won 415 of 543 Lok Sabha seats with what share of votes?Read the answer and worked solution →In Israel, a party gets seats in proportion to its votes. This system is:Read the answer and worked solution →Rajya Sabha members are elected by the MLAs of a state using the:Read the answer and worked solution →The main reason India adopted FPTP is its:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The new national flag of the Republic of South Africa was unfurled at midnight on:

  1. 26 April 1994
  2. 26 January 1950
  3. 15 August 1947
  4. 26 November 1949
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Correct answer: A. 26 April 1994

1. Discriminatory laws had been repealed. 2. A new democracy was born. 3. The flag rose on 26 April 1994. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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Constitution rules work only if the election winner:

  1. Rewrites them every year
  2. Cannot change them easily
  3. Writes them all alone
  4. Ignores them completely
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Correct answer: B. Cannot change them easily

1. Rules must outlast one government. 2. Otherwise the winner could rig the future. 3. So they must be hard to change. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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Who gave themselves a constitution after a War of Independence against Great Britain?

  1. The Russian people
  2. South Africans
  3. The Americans
  4. The French people
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Correct answer: C. The Americans

1. The French did so after their Revolution. 2. Another people did so after a war against Britain. 3. Those were the Americans. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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