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UPSC CDS Politycitizenship — practice questions

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Complete the definition of a constitutionRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: what a constitution doesRead the answer and worked solution →Order the making of India's ConstitutionRead the answer and worked solution →Dates of the Constituent AssemblyRead the answer and worked solution →Before or after Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: how the Assembly was chosenRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the first function of a constitutionRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reasonRead the answer and worked solution →Two are true, one is notRead the answer and worked solution →Three of these are wrong. Find the one that holds.Read the answer and worked solution →Tap every function of a constitution the chapter namesRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: date or body with what it marksRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Rule, body, or date?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading the definitions backRead 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 →

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Complete the definition of a constitution

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Missing parts
  1. Answer
    fundamental
    Choices
    1. fundamental
    2. temporary
    3. local
  2. Answer
    governed
    Choices
    1. governed
    2. divided
    3. funded
Complete the statement
A constitution is a body of {0} principles according to which a state is constituted or {1}.
The chapter's own wording. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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True or false: what a constitution does

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The first function of a constitution is to allow minimal coordination among members of a society.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    It provides a set of basic rules.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    It governs the allocation of power in society.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A constitution is a body of fundamental principles.
  5. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    A constitution deals only with elections.
Its first function is coordination, before anything about rights. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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Order the making of India's Constitution

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Steps
  1. Provincial Legislative Assemblies are set up under the Government of India Act, 1935
  2. Their members indirectly elect the Constituent Assembly
  3. The Assembly holds its first sitting on 9 December 1946 for undivided India
  4. Partition changes the country it is writing for
  5. It reassembles as the Constituent Assembly for divided India on 14 August 1947
Two sittings, either side of Partition. Source: syllabus Political Science, Constitution: Why and How?

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