UPSC STATIC QUIZ – Geography : 19 February 2024

Solution: d)

MN Roy had put forth the idea of a Constituent assembly of India in 1934. Later the INC demanded it.

During the Second World War, this assertion for an independent Constituent Assembly formed only of Indians gained momentum and this was convened in December 1946.

Between December 1946 and November 1949, the Constituent Assembly drafted a constitution for independent India.

Solution: b)

Statement 3 is incorrect.

• In December, 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved the historic ‘Objectives Resolution’ in the Assembly. It laid down the fundamentals and philosophy of the constitutional structure.
• It included the major values and ideals of sovereignty, republic, fundamental rights, directive principles, non-interference etc.
• It sought to secure to ideals mentioned in the Preamble.
• It provided for adequate safeguards for minorities, backward and tribal areas, and depressed and other backward classes.
• This Resolution was unanimously adopted by the Assembly on January 22, 1947. It influenced the eventual shaping of the constitution through all its subsequent stages. Its modified version forms the Preamble of the present Constitution.

Solution: b)

Statement 3 is incorrect.

Both the aspects of freedom — the absence of external constraints as well as the existence of conditions in which people can develop their talents — are important. A free society would be one which enables all its members to develop their potential with the minimum of social constraints.

In order to be free, an individual should be able to make decisions individually, with a support of collective decision-making in which no one individual dominates the others.

Solution: a)

Only Statement 1 is correct.

The Preamble to the Indian Constitution is based on the ‘Objective Resolution’, drafted and moved by Pandit Nehru, and adopted by the Constituent Assembly.

Preamble has been amended by the 42^nd Constitutional Amendment Act (1976), which added three new words—socialist, secular and integrity.

The Preamble is neither a source of power to legislature nor a prohibition upon the powers of legislature.

Solution: d)

Westminster is a place in London where the British Parliament is located. It is often used as a symbol of the British Parliament.

The Parliament is the legislative organ of the Union government. It occupies a pre-eminent and central position in the Indian democratic political system due to adoption of the parliamentary form of government, also known as ‘Westminster‘ model of government.