Constitution [IAS (Admin.) IAS Mains GS Paper 2 (Governance, Polity, Social Justice, & IR)]: Questions 1 - 5 of 30

• Under Part XXI, Article 370 of the Indian Constitution provision deals with “Temporary, Transitional and Special provisions” , which grants special autonomous status to Jammu & Kashmir, clearly states that the provisions with respect to the State of J&K are only temporary and not permanent.
• Accor…

• British Government in India proposed the Government of India Act 1935, and it is considered as the first and the last British Act to propose the federal system or federal form of government in India. But, later India adopts a “quasi federal” system without much sticking onto to the federal system alone.
• The Government of …

• The Coelho case is popularly known as the Ninth Schedule case. It is considered as an important landmark judgement which upheld the basic structural doctrine of the constitution propounded earlier in the Keshvananda Bharti case.
• According to Coelho case, the ninth schedule items does not want encounter to any judicial review as it is part of the con…

• The Preamble can be defined as an introductory or a preface to the Indian Constitution. The adjectives attached to the word Republic are Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, and Democratic. The terms ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ were added to the Preamble of the Indian constitution by the 42^nd Amendment.
• The word “soverei…

India enjoys the federal government with the unitary features according to circumstances and so called quasi federal state. The framers of the Constitution adopted the federal system because of the large size of the country and its socio-cultural diversity. They realized that federal system ensures the effective government with the National Unity a…