Constitutional Design

The Constitution is a set of ______________________ that are accepted by all people living together in a country

From the following options choose all the things a constitution is supposed to do

• Generate a degree of trust and coordination that is necessary for different people to live together

• Specifies how the government will be constituted

• Lays down the limits of the trade and commerce

• expresses aspirations of the people

• expresses the ambitions of politicians

All countries that have a constitution are democratic

• True

• False

Since the French revolution, it has become a practice in all democracies to have a __________________________

The country of India was borm through a partition based on ______________________

• linguistic differences

• social differences

• cultural differences

• religious differences

Choose the decisions to be made by the Princely States after the British leave India

• Merge with India

• Merge with China

• Merge with Pakistan

• Remain independent

Identify this leader who played a decisive role in the integration of the Princely States

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad

• Sardar Vallabhai Patel

• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Identify the circumstances which made the drawing up of the Indian constitution very difficult.

• Indians did not want a democracy

• India was a huge and diverse country

• People were emerging from su8bjects to citizens

• The traumatic partition of India and Pakistan

Choose the event which happened in 1928

• Motilal Nehru and eight Congress leaders drafted a constitution for India

• Members of the Indian National Congress dwelt on how independent India's constitution should look like

• Constituent Assembly adopted the Indian Constitution

• Indian Constitution came into effect

Choose the basic ideas accepted by everyone regarding the constitution of India

• Universal adult franchise

• right to freedom

• right to equality

• protection of rights of minorities