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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 →Catch the ways inRead the answer and worked solution →Pop Marshall's rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the citizenship factsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the majorities

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Does not match the category
  1. Referendum
  2. Unanimous
  3. Governor
  4. Veto
Matches the category
  1. Half House
  2. Two thirds
  3. 273 MPs
  4. Half St.
Instructions
Slice only the majorities that matter for an amendment.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Parliament alone or States too

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Upper category
Parl only
Lower category
And States
Items
  1. Category
    Parl only
    Item
    Duties
  2. Category
    Parl only
    Item
    Voting age
  3. Category
    Parl only
    Item
    Judge age
  4. Category
    And States
    Item
    Centre-St
  5. Category
    And States
    Item
    Rep. of St
  6. Category
    And States
    Item
    St. powers
Instructions
Send each amendment subject to the procedure it needs.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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Kinds of amendment

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Items
  1. Group
    Technical
    Item
    Judge age 62
  2. Group
    Technical
    Item
    SC/ST extension
  3. Group
    Technical
    Item
    Art 74 binding
  4. Group
    vs Judiciary
    Item
    42nd, 1976
  5. Group
    vs Judiciary
    Item
    1970-75 acts
  6. Group
    Consensus
    Item
    Anti-defection
  7. Group
    Consensus
    Item
    Voting age 18
  8. Group
    Consensus
    Item
    73rd and 74th
Groups
  1. Item
    Technical
  2. Item
    vs Judiciary
  3. Item
    Consensus
Instructions
Drop each amendment onto the group it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 9, Constitution as a Living Document._

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