31. The Drafting of the Constitution was completed on :
Correct Answer:-C ( 26th November, 1949 )
Description:- A Draft Constitution was prepared by the committee and submitted to the Assembly on 4 November 1947. Draft constitution was debated and over 2000 amendments were moved over a period of two years. Finally on 26 November, 1949, the process was completed and Constituent assembly adopted the constitution. 284 members signed the document and the process of constitution making was complete.
32. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?
Correct Answer:-C ( Dr. Rajendra Prasad )
Description:- The first temporary 2-day president of the Constituent Assembly was Dr Sachidanand Sinha. Later, Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly.
33. The method of Impeachment of the President of India is adopted from
Correct Answer:-A ( U.S.A. )
Description:- The Indian Constitution has borrowed some features from the U.S Constitution. Those features are: fundamental rights, independence of judiciary, judicial review, impeachment of the president, removal of Supreme Court and High Court judges and post of Vice-President.
34. Who was the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly ?
Correct Answer:-B ( Dr. Rajendra Prasad )
Description:- The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. Following India’s independence from Great Britain, its members served as the nation’s first Parliament. Dr. Sachchidanand Sinha was the first president (temporary chairman) of the Constituent Assembly when it met on December 9, 1946. Dr. Rajendra Prasad then became the President of the Constituent Assembly, and would later become the first President of India.
35. The Constitution of India describes the country as a
Correct Answer:-A ( Union of States )
Description:- Part I of the Constitution of India describes the nation that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. It also mentions that the states and the territories shall be specified in the First Schedule.
36. The concept of Constitution first originated in
Correct Answer:-B ( Britain )
Description:- England is treated as the place where the constitutional concept germinated, though the ancient Greek and Roman Republics, too, had such a facility. In England, Henry I’s proclamation of the Charter of Liberties in 1100 bound the king for the first time in his treatment of the clergy and the nobility. This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215. The most important single article of the Magna Carta, related to “habeas corpus”, provided that the king was not permitted to imprison, outlaw, exile or kill anyone at a whim—there must be due process of law first.
37. The provisional President of the Constituent Assembly was
Correct Answer:-A ( Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha )
Description:- Dr. Sachidanand Sinha was the first president of the Constituent Assembly. Later, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly while B.R. Ambedkar was appointed the Chairman of the Drafting Committee.
38. The Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution was
Correct Answer:-D ( Dr. B.R. Ambedkar )
Description:- On the 14 August, 1947 meeting of the Assembly, a proposal for forming various committees was presented. Such committees included a Committee on Fundamental Rights, the Union Powers Committee and Union Constitution Committee. On 29 August, 1947, the Drafting Committee was appointed, with Dr B. R. Ambedkar as the Chairman along with six other members assisted by a constitutional advisor.
39. Who was the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of India?
Correct Answer:-B ( Dr. Rajendra Prasad )
Description:- Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha was the first president (temporary chairman) of the Constituent Assembly when it met on December 9, 1946. Dr. Rajendra Prasad then became the President of the Constituent Assembly, and would later become the first President of India.
40. “Persons may change but rules should not change” is the principle of
Correct Answer:-B ( Constitutional Government )
Description:- Constitutional government is defined by the existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity—that effectively controls the exercise of political power. Persons do not call the shots or frame rules in such governments. Everything that is to be governed is dictated by set of rules enshrined in the constitution.
41. The Constituent Assembly of India was set up under the
Correct Answer:-D ( Cabinet Mission plan )
Description:- The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. The Constituent Assembly was set up while India was still under British rule, following negotiations between Indian leaders and members of the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India from the United Kingdom.
42. The two basic principles of the liberal theory of democracy as emphasised by John Locke, are
Correct Answer:-A ( Universal Adult Franchise and the Right to Property )
Description:- John Locke’s “Two Treatises on Government” of 1689 established two fundamental liberal ideas: economic liberty (meaning the right to have and use property) and intellectual liberty (including freedom of conscience). According to Locke, the individual was naturally free and only became a political subject out of free choice. Without the consent of the people there could not be formed a civil society/ community. Secondly, Locke emphasized that all men were equal. There was a perfect state of equality with all the power being reciprocal and no one having more than the other. This is a fundamental principle of present day democracy. From it, flows the democratic principle of universal participation. That no man shall be excluded from the political process.
43. ‘Cabinet system’ and ‘Collective responsibility’ are the contributions of
Correct Answer:-D ( Britain )
Description:- Cabinet system and its collective responsibility is constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all govern-mental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them. This support includes voting for the government in the legislature. In the United Kingdom, the doctrine applies to all members of the government, from members of the cabinet down to Parliamentary Private Secretaries.
44. Direct Democracy is a system of Government in which
Correct Answer:-C ( People take part directly in the policy making and administration of the country. )
Description:- In general, the term “direct democracy” usually refers to citizens making policy and law decisions in person, without going through representatives and legislatures. Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives.
45. In India legal sovereignty is vested with
Correct Answer:-D ( the Constitution )
Description:- Legal sovereignty represents the lawyer’s conception of sovereignty. It is associated with the supreme law-making authority in the state. The body which has the power to issue final commands in the form of laws is the legal sovereign in a state. This power may be vested in one person or a body of persons. It may be a king or dictator or parliament. Legal sovereignty is organized and re-organized by constitutional law.
46. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly of India?
Correct Answer:-B ( Jawaharlal Nehru )
Description:- Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected the President of Constituent Assembly on 11 December, 1946. On January 26, 1950, the Constitution of independent India was ratified and Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected the nation’s first President.
47. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly ?
Correct Answer:-A ( Dr. B.R. Ambedkar )
Description:- Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly while B.R. Ambedkar was appointed the Chairman of the Drafting Committee.
48. What is meant when the Constitution declares India a “Secular State” ?
Correct Answer:-C ( The state regards religions as a private affairs of the citizen and does not discriminate on this basis )
Description:- Secularism is the principle of separation of government institutions, and the persons mandated to represent the State, from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. India is a secular country as per the declaration in the Preamble to the Indian Constitution. It prohibits discrimination against members of a particular religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Every person has the right to preach, practice and propagate any religion they choose. The government must not favour or discriminate against any religion. It must treat all religions with equal respect. All citizens, irrespective of their religious beliefs are equal in front of law.
49. January 26 selected as the date for the inauguration of the Constitution, because
Correct Answer:-C ( the Congress had observed it as the Independence Day in 1930 )
Description:- The Indian constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on the 26th November, 1949 and it came into force after two months on 26th January, 1950. The day January 26 was chosen because it was this very day when the Poorna Swaraj resolution was made in Lahore in 1930 and the first tricolor of India unfurled.
50. The Unitary System of Government possesses which of the following advantages ?
Correct Answer:-B ( Strong State )
Description:- A unitary system of government, or unitary state, is a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate. Lower-level governments, if they exist at all, do nothing but implement the policies of the national government.
51. Which one of the following is not an element of the State ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Army )
Description:- The state has four essential elements. These are: [1] population, [2] territory (land), [3] government, [4] sovereignty (or independence). The first two elements constitute the physical or material basis of the state while the last two form its political and spiritual basis. In modern times relations among nations have grown and many international organizations and institutions have come into being. Therefore some scholars have argued that international recognition be an essential element of state.
52. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly ?
Correct Answer:-A ( Dr. B. R. Ambedkar )
Description:- On 29 August, 1947, the Drafting Committee was appointed, with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as the Chairman along with six other members assisted by a constitutional advisor.
53. The concept of Sovereign Parliament originated in :
Correct Answer:-A ( England )
Description:- The concept of Parliamentary sovereignty holds that the legislative body may change or repeal any previous legislation, and so that it is not bound by written law (in some cases, even a constitution) or by precedent. It is a principle of the UK constitution. It makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the UK, which can create or end any law. Generally, the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change.
54. Who is considered the Architect of the Indian Constitution ?
Correct Answer:-B ( B.R. Ambedkar )
Description:- B. R. Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Indian Consti-tution. Granville Austin has described the Indian Constitution drafted by Ambedkar as ‘first and foremost a social document’. … ‘The majority of India’s constitutional provisions are either directly arrived at furthering the aim of social revolution or attempt to foster this revolution by establishing conditions necessary for its achievement.”
55. The concurrent list in the Indian Constitution is adopted from the Constitution of
Correct Answer:-D ( Australia )
Description:- The Constitution of India borrowed the following features from Australia: concurrent list; language of the preamble; and provisions regarding trade, commerce and intercourse.
56. When was the Indian Constitution adopted ?
Correct Answer:-B ( 26th November, 1949 )
Description:- The Constitution was enacted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November, 1949, and came into effect on 26 January, 1950. With its adoption, the Union of India officially became the modern and contemporary Republic of India and it replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the country’s fundamental governing document.
57. The mind and ideals of the framers of Constitution are reflected in the
Correct Answer:-A ( Preamble )
Description:- The mind and ideals of the framers of the Constitution are reflected in the Preamble.
58. Which of the following is not a feature of Indian Constitution ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Presidential form of Government )
Description:- ‘Presidential Form of Government’ is not a feature of Indian Constitution.
59. What is the basis of classification of governments as unitary and federal?
Correct Answer:-C ( Relationship between the Centre and States )
Description:- The basic principles of federalism are the distribution of powers between the Centre and the States.
60. Indian Constitution is :
Correct Answer:-B ( Quasi Federal )
Description:- The Indian constitution which envisages parliamentary form of government is federal in structure with unitary features. Thus, it is quasi-federal.
