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

Answer: (a)

B. R. Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Indian Consti-tution. Granville Austin has described the Indian Constitution drafted by Ambedkar as 'first and foremost a social document'. ... 'The majority of India's constitutional provisions are either directly arrived at furthering the aim of social revolution or attempt to foster this revolution by establishing conditions necessary for its achievement.”

Answer: (d)

On 29 August 1947, the Drafting Committee was appointed with Dr B. R. Ambedkar as the Chairman along with six other members assisted by a constitutional advisor.

These members were

• Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant,
• K M Munshi,
• Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer,
• N Gopala swami Ayengar,
• B L Mitter and
• Md. Saadullah.

A Draft Constitution was prepared by the committee and submitted to the Assembly on 4 November 1947. This is Ambedkar’s second argument rested on the legitimacy of the democratic system.

Answer: (d)

Though the basic features of Indian Constitution are based on the Government of India Act, 1935, it has many features which were borrowed from many foreign constitutions. It was from the Canadian Constitution that India borrowed a quasi-federal form of government (a federal system with a strong central government) and the idea of Residual Powers.

Answer: (a)

Constitutional government is defined by the existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity—that effectively controls the exercise of political power.

Persons do not call the shots or frame rules in such governments. Everything that is to be governed is dictated by a set of rules enshrined in the constitution.

Answer: (b)

Constitution of India enacted on 26th November 1949 by President of India and came into force on 26th January 1950.