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Compare the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, India and South Africa and answer the following questions.

(a) Make a list of ideas that are common to all these three

(b) Note down at least one of the major differences among these

 

Important Questions on Constitutional Design

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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>CHECK YOUR PROGRESS>Q 3

Compare the preambles to the constitutions of the United States of America, India and South Africa.

(c) Which of the three makes a reference to the past?

(d) Which of these does not invoke God?

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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 1

Identify the mistake in these statements and rewrite them correctly based on what you have read in the chapter of 'Constitutional Design.'

  • The leader of the freedom movement had an open mind about whether the country should be democratic or not after independence.
  • Members of the Constituent Assembly of India held the same views on all provisions of the Constitution.
  • A country that has a constitution must be a democracy.
  • The constitution cannot be amended because it is the supreme law of a country.
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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 2
Which of these was the most salient underlying conflict in the making of a democratic constitution in South Africa?
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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 3
Which of these is a provision that a democratic constitution does not have?
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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 8

Here is an opinion about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to this factor?

"Democracy in India is a gift of the British rulers. We received training to work with representative legislative institutions under the British rule."

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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 8

Here is an opinion about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to this factor?

Freedom struggle challenged the colonial exploitation and denial of different freedoms to Indians. Free India could not be anything but democratic.

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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 8

Here is an opinion about what made India a democratic country. How much importance would you give to this factor?

We were lucky to have leaders who had democratic convictions. The denial of democracy in several other newly independent countries shows the important role of these leaders.

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Social Science DEMOCRATIC POLITICS-I Textbook of Political Science for Class IX>Chapter 2 - Constitutional Design>exercises>Q 10
The authority of the rules of the constitution is the same as that of any other law.