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Questions : Judicial Review’s Doctrine of Partial Annulment is related to which article of the Constitution?

(a) Article 32

(b) Article 141

(c) Article 13

(d) Article 246

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

Article 13 of the Indian Constitution deals with Judicial review.

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Question : 1

Which of the following special powers have been conferred on the Rajya Sabha by the Constitution of India?

a) To pass a resolution empowering the Parliament to make laws in the State List and to create one or more All India Services

b) To change the existing territory of a State and to change the name of a State

c) To amend the election procedure of the President and to determine the pension of the President after his/her retirement

d) To determine the functions of the Election Commission and to determine the number of Election Commissioners

Answer: (a)

The Constitution of India empowering the Parliament to make laws in the State List and to create one or more All India Services.

Question : 2

What is the term of a Member of the Rajya Sabha ?

a) Six years

b) Five years

c) Three years

d) Four years

Answer: (a)

The Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution. However, one third of the members retire every second year, and are replaced by newly elected members. Each member is elected for a term of six years.

Question : 3

The President of India enjoys emergency powers of

a) three types

b) five types

c) four types

d) two types

Answer: (a)

A state of emergency in India refers to a period of governance under an altered constitutional setup that can be proclaimed by the President of India when he/she perceives grave threats to the nation from internal and external sources or from financial situations of crisis.

The President can declare three types of emergencies:

  1. National emergency (caused by war, external aggression or armed rebellion in the whole of India or a part of its territory),
  2. State emergency (declared on the failure of constitutional machinery in a state) and
  3. Financial emergency (if the President is satisfied that there is an economic situation in which the financial stability or credit of India is threatened).

Question : 4

In the Indian Republic, the real executive authority rests with the :

a) Council of Ministers

b) Bureaucrats

c) Prime Minister

d) President

Answer: (a)

The President is the constitutional head of the Executive of the Union. Real executive power vests in a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as the head.

Article 74(1) of the Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his functions, act in accordance with such advice. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha, the House of the People.

Question : 5

Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

  • Assertion (A): After a Money Bill is passed by the Lok Sabha and transmitted to the Rajya Sabha, the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha have to be accepted by the Lok Sabha within 14 days from receipt of the recommendations and then get them incorporated in the Bill.
  • Reason (R): A Money Bill cannot be introduced in the Rajya Sabha.
Codes :

a) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A

b) A is true but R is false

c) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A

d) A is false but R is true

Answer: (d)

Under Article 110(1) of the Constitution, a Money Bill can be introduced in Lok Sabha only. If any question arises whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not, the decision of Speaker thereon is final. The Speaker is under no obligation to consult anyone in coming to a decision or in giving his certificate that a Bill is a Money Bill.

The certificate of the Speaker to the effect that a Bill is a Money Bill, is to be endorsed and signed by him when it is transmitted to Rajya Sabha and also when it is presented to the President for his assent.

Question : 6

Consider the following statements regarding ‘No confidence motion’

  1. Only a motion expressing want of confidence in the council of ministers as a whole is admitted and one expressing lack of confidence in an individual minister is out of order
  2. A no-confidence motion needs to set out the grounds on which it is based.
  3. Any no-confidence motion once moved can’t be withdrawn 4. Rajya Sabha is not empowered to entertain a motion of no confidence
Which of the following given above are not correct?

a) 1, 2, and 3 only

b) 2 and 3 only

c) 1 and 2 only

d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer: (d)

A no-confidence motion does not need to set out grounds on which it is based. The withdrawal of the notice by a member may be made when he is called upon by the speaker to ask for leave of the House.

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