EKYA SCHOOLS/CMR NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

GRADE XI POLITICAL SCIENCE

CONSTITUTION

Total Marks: 30 Time: 1 hour

Q No PART A Marks

I. Choose the correct option:

1. To announce publicly at the start of a law" is called? 1

A. Promulgation
B. Integration
C. Opening
D. Disparity

2. Who is the final arbiter of the constitution? 1

A. Democracy
B. The legislature
C. The judiciary
D. Supreme court

3. Who is the Constitutional Advisor of the Constituent Assembly? 1

A. B.N. Rau
B. B. R. Ambedkar
C. Surendra Nath Mukherjee
D. Nehru

II In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and
Reason (R). Read these statements and choose one correct answer from the given
options-
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true

4. Assertion [A]: Our constitution makers divided our government into three branches- 1
legislature, executive, and judiciary.

Reason [R]: The three divisions of the government are designed to hold checks and balances
over one another.

5. Assertion (A) : The Indian Constitution is the bulkiest Constitution in the world, about five 1
times the size of the Constitution of U.S.A.
Reason (R ) : The makers of the Constitution wanted to include all good elements from about
four score Constitutions of the free world at that time and special clauses have been provided
for laying down the Fundamental Right, Directive Principles, rules for elections, a list of
national languages and details about the conduct of the government.

PART B
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6. What do you mean by ‘Democratic’ with special reference to India? 2

7. What do political and economic justice stand for? 2

PART C

8. Give two examples each to support the following conclusions about the Indian Constitution: 3
(a) The Constitution was made by credible leaders who commanded people’s respect.
(b) The Constitution has distributed power in such a way as to make it difficult to
subvert it.
(c) The Constitution is the locus of people’s hopes and aspirations.

9. Why is it necessary for a constitution to place limitations on the rulers? Can there be a 3
constitution that gives no power at all to the citizens?

10. “India is a Sovereign, Democratic, Republic”. Justify the statement. 3

PART D

11. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow: 5

“One likes to ask whether there can be anything new in a Constitution framed at this hour in
the history of the world… The only new things, if there can be any, in a Constitution framed so
late in the day are the variations made to remove the faults and to accommodate it to the
needs of the country.”

Questions:
1. Whose words have been referred to here?
2. What was the main new thing according to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar during the process of
framing the Indian Constitution?

12. Read the cartoon (NCERT Textbook, page 7) given below and answer the questions that 5
follow:
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CONSTITUTION

Questions:
(i) Can you identify what these different groups stand for?
(ii) Who do you think prevailed in this balancing act?