Indian Constitution Online Quiz

The bill is passed by a simple majority of a joint sitting. Since the Lok Sabha has more than twice the members of the Rajya Sabha, a group commanding a majority in the lower house of the Government of India can pass such a bill even if it was previously rejected by the upper house.

Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

In India, the power to issue a writ of habeas corpus is vested only in the Supreme Court and the High Court. Habeas corpus is the writ which was visualized as an effective means to provide a quick remedy to a person who has lost his personal liberty without any legal justification.

The Fundamental Rights are enshrined in Part III of the Constitution (Articles 12-35). Fundamental Rights are not given to Political sufferers. Political sufferers are those people who are victims of political manipulations, political games, political strategies, etc. Fundamental rights are available to both citizens and foreigners except enemy aliens.

The constitution allows both the Supreme court and the High court to issue writs to enforce fundamental rights. Article 32 states that the Supreme court can issue any of the mentioned writs to enforce the fundamental rights under part III.

The basic features of the Indian Constitution which are not amendable under Article 368 are Sovereignty, territorial integrity, federal system, judicial review and parliament system of government. As per the Basic Structure Doctrine, any amendment that tries to change the basic structure of the constitution is invalid.

Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were nominated by the President of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. Provision for the nomination of two Anglo-Indians to Lok Sabha was made under Article 331 of the Constitution.

The President may be removed before his tenure through impeachment for violating the Constitution of India by the Parliament of India. The process may begin in either of the two houses of the Parliament. There is no approval of the Chief Justice of India is required.

Article 360 of the constitution mentions Financial Emergency. It states that if the President is satisfied that a situation has arisen whereby the financial stability or the credit of India or any part thereof is threatened, the President may declare a state of financial emergency.

The idea of the legislature as the custodian of national purse was for the first time mooted by the Government of India Act, 1909. It is considered as the custodian as it is the primary and most often the exclusive arbiter of federal fiscal affairs.