TextBook Solutions for Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Class 9 Social Science Democratic Politics Chapter 3 Constitutonal Design

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

Leaders of the freedom movement had an open mind about whether the country should be democratic or not after independence.

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

Members of the Constituent Assembly of India held the same views on all provisions of the Constitution.

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

A country that has a Constitution must be a democracy.

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

Constitution cannot be amended because it is the supreme law of a country.

Which of these was the most salient underlying conflict in the making of a democratic constitution in South Africa?

• Between South Africa and its neighbours

• Between men and women

• Between the white majority and the black minority

• Between the coloured minority and the black majority.

Which of these is a provision that a democratic constitution does not have?

• Powers of the head of the state

• Name of the head of the state

• Powers of the legislature

• Name of the country

Match the following leaders with their roles in the making of the Constitution:

Read again the extracts from Nehru’s speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’ and answer the following:

Why did Nehru use the expression “not wholly or in full measure” in the first sentence?

Read again the extracts from Nehru’s speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’ and answer the following:

What pledge did he want the makers of the Indian Constitution to take?

Read again the extracts from Nehru’s speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’ and answer the following:
“The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye”. Who was he referring to?