Indian Polity Questions For UPSC, SSC CGL, CHSL, CPO, FCI, Quiz-7

Correct Answer – B. U.K.

Explanation: An unmodified or unwritten constitution is a type of constitution where the fundamental rules of government take the form of customs, usage, precedent and a variety of statutes and legal instruments.Current example of such a constitution is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland where there is no defining document that can be termed ‘the constitution’.Because the political system evolved over time, rather than being changed suddenly in an event such .as a revolution, it is continuously being defined by acts of Parliament and decisions of the Law Courts.

Correct Answer – C. 26 November, 1949

Explanation:-The Constitution was enacted/adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, and came into effect on 26 January 1950. The date 26 January was chosen to commemorate the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence of 1930.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.

Correct Answer – A. Dr B.R. Ambedkar

Explanation:- Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly while B.R. Ambedkar was appointed the Chairman of the Drafting Committee.

Correct Answer – C. The State regards religions as a private affairs of the citizen and does not discriminate on this basis

Explanation:-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.

Correct Answer – C. The Congress had observed it as the Independence Day in 1930

Explanation:-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.

Correct Answer –C. Canada

Explanation:-Though the basic features of Indian Constitution are based on the Government of India Act, 1935, it has many features which were borrowed from many foreign constitutions. It was from the Canadian Constitution that India borrowed a quasi-federal form of government (a federal system with a strong central government) and the idea of Residual Powers.

Correct Answer –C. Mahatma Gandhi

Explanation:-The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. Some of its prominent members were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Acharya J.B. Kriplani, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Smt. Sarojini Naidu, Shri Hare-Krushna Mahatab, Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Shri Sarat Chandra Bose, Shri C. Rajagopalachari and Shri M. Asaf Ali.

Correct Answer –B. The Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946

Explanation:-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.The Assembly members were elected to it indirectly by the members of the Individual provincial legislative assemblies, and initially included representatives for those provinces which came to form part of Pakistan, some of which are now within Bangladesh.

Correct Answer –C. detention without interrogation

Explanation:-Preventive  detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes. In contrast to this, under preventive detention the government can imprison a person for some time without a criminal charge. It means that if the government feels that a person being at liberty can be a threat to the law and order or the unity and integrity of the nation, it can detain or arrest that person to prevent him from doing this possible harm.

Correct Answer –A. Universal Adult Franchise and the Right to Property

Explanation:-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.