Indian Constitution Quiz 3

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.

A member of either House of Parliament will lose his membership of Parliament if he is continuously absent from sessions without permission of the House for 60 days.

In the U.S.A. the President is elected by the Universal Adult Franchise. The Electoral College is the formal body which elects the President and Vice President of the United States. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

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. The Vice President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution of India form part of a scheme of the Constitutional Right to Equality. According to Article 14: “The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.”

Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, in the event that a state government is unable to function according to Constitutional provisions, the Union government can take direct control of the state machinery.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of auditing the revenue and the expenditure of the Government of India. PAC scrutinizes the report of the CAG.

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.

On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special constitutional status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.

The Right to Constitutional Remedies (Article 32) is considered to be the most important fundamental right because it ensures the protection of our fundamental rights. Article 32 is known as the “spirit of the constitution and exceptionally heart of it” by Dr. Ambedkar.