making of indian constitution & its development Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (d)

A Draft Constitution was prepared by the committee and submitted to the Assembly on 4 November 1947. The draft constitution was debated and over 2000 amendments were moved over a period of two years. Finally, on 26 November 1949, the process was completed and Constituent assembly adopted the constitution.

284 members signed the document and the process of constitution-making was complete.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control.

Both totalitarianism and military dictatorship are often identified with, but need not be an autocracy.

Answer: (b)

Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives.

Many countries that are representative democracies allow for three forms of political action that provide limited direct democracy: referendum (plebiscite), initiative, and recall.

Referendums can include the ability to hold a binding vote on whether a given law should be rejected. This effectively grants the populace which holds suffrage a veto on a law adopted by the elected legislature (one nation to use this system is Switzerland).

Answer: (b)

The idea of Constituent Assembly of India was first put forward by Manabendra Nath Roy or MN Roy in 1934. In 1935, it became the official demand of the Indian National Congress.

It was accepted in August 1940 in the August Offer; however, it was constituted under the Cabinet Mission plan of 1946. The constituent assembly drafted the constitution of India.