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UPSC CDS Fundamental Rights — practice questions — page 5

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Under which article do High Courts issue writs?Read the answer and worked solution →The Supreme Court strikes down a law that clashes with the Constitution. What is this power called?Read the answer and worked solution →Is the term judicial review written anywhere in the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1973 the Supreme Court held that Parliament cannot violate the Constitution's basic structure. Which case was this?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the right to property removed from the list of fundamental rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch independenceRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the PIL casesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the courtsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the writsRead the answer and worked solution →Which jurisdictionRead the answer and worked solution →Who does whatRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Judiciary 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 →

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Under which article do High Courts issue writs?

  1. Article 32
  2. Article 13
  3. Article 356
  4. Article 226
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Correct answer: D. Article 226

1. Article 226 gives High Courts writ power. 2. A citizen may go to either court. 3. The Supreme Court uses Article 32. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 6, Judiciary._

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The Supreme Court strikes down a law that clashes with the Constitution. What is this power called?

  1. Judicial review
  2. Judicial activism
  3. Advisory opinion
  4. Contempt power
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Correct answer: A. Judicial review

1. Judicial review examines a law's constitutionality. 2. An inconsistent law is declared void. 3. The term is not written in the Constitution. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 6, Judiciary._

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Is the term judicial review written anywhere in the Constitution?

  1. Yes, in the Preamble
  2. No, it is implied
  3. Yes, in Article 32
  4. Yes, in Article 13
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Correct answer: B. No, it is implied

1. The term is nowhere mentioned. 2. A written constitution and Article 13 imply it. 3. The Court can strike down laws against rights. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 6, Judiciary._

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