Based on the first few Articles of Belgian Constitution given below — explain how federalism is visualised in that country. Try and write a similar Article for the Constitution of India.
Title I: On Federal Belgium, its components and its territory.
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Article 1: Belgium is a Federal State made up of communities and regions.
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Article 2: Belgium is made up of three communities. The French Community, the Flemish Community and the German Community.
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Article 3: Belgium is made up of three regions: The Walloon region, the Flemish region and the Brussels region.
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Article 4: Belgium has four linguistic regions: The French-speaking region, the Dutch-speaking region, the bilingual region of Brussels capital and the German-speaking region. Each commune (country borough) of the kingdom is part of one of these linguistic regions....
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Article 5: The Walloon region is made up of the following provinces: The Walloon Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Luxemburg and Namur. The Flemish region is made up of the following provinces: Antwerp, the Flemish Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders and Limburg. ........
A. In Indian Constitution Article 1 says India that is, Bharat shall be a Union of States. |
B. India apsires to be a society that is free of caste discrimination but the seats in each province were distributed among three main communities, Hindu, Muslims, Sikhs and general. |
C. In India there is a union of 28 States and seven Union Territories. According to Article 1: 1. India, that is, Bharat shall be a Union of States. 2. The states and union territories thereof shall be as specified in the First Schedule. |
D. In the Constitution of India the eighth (8th) Schedule describes different languages. Eighteen languages are given in this schedule. 1. Assamese, 2. Bengali, 3. Gujarati, 4. Hindi. 5. Kannada, 6. Kashmiri, 7. Konkani, 8. Malyalam, 9. Manipuri, 10. Marathi, 11. Nepali, 12. Oriya,. 13. Punjabi, 14. Sanskrit, 15. Sindhi, 16. Tamil, 17.Telugu, 18. Urdu. These languages are spoken in different regions of India. Article 344 (1) and Article 351. |
E. Article 1 (2) States the states and the union territories thereof shall be as specified in the First Schedule. |
