RBSE Class 9 Social Science Important Questions Civics Chapter 2 Constitutional Design

Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 9 Social Science Important Questions  Civics Chapter 2 Constitutional Design  Important Questions and Answers. 

RBSE Class 9 Social Science Important Questions  Civics Chapter 2 Constitutional Design

Multiple Choice Questions:

Question 1. 
Nelson Mandela was kept in the prison
(a) Andaman 
(b) Guantanamo Bay 
(c) Robben Island 
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) Robben Island 

Question 2. 
Nelson Mandela was fighting against a racial discrimination called
(a) Begar 
(b) Slave trade 
(c) Human Traffiking
(d) Apartheid
Answer:
(d) Apartheid

 

Question 3. 
Whites divided the people into these categories
(a) Blacks 
(b) Whites 
(c) Coloured 
(d) All of these
Answer:
(d) All of these

Question 4. 
Key feature of African constitution was
(a) no one should be excluded 
(b) to create a good society
(c) fraternity among citizens 
(d) all the above
Answer:
(d) all the above

Question 5. 
What was the major problem faced by free India?
(a) Partition of India and Pakistan 
(b) Settlement of Refugees
(c) Develop agriculture 
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above

Question 6. 
Who was the Education Minister in the first union cabinet?
(a) T. Krishnamachari 
(b) Abdul Kalam
(c) Sardar Patel 
(d) Jaipal Singh
Answer:
(b) Abdul Kalam

Question 7. 
Who was the Finance Minister in the first Union Cabinet?
(a) Pranab Mukharjee
(b) Abdul Kalam
(c) T. Krishnamachari
(d) H.C. Mukheijee
Answer:
(c) T. Krishnamachari

Question 8. 
Who integrated the Indian Princely states?
(a) Pt. Jawaher Lai Nehru  
(b) Mahatma Gandhi 
(c) Sardar Patel  
(d) Indira Gandhi
Answer:
(c) Sardar Patel  

Question 9. 
How many members were there in the constituent Assembly that wrote the Indian Constitution?
(a) 399 
(b) 299 
(c) 199 
(d) 190
Answer:
(b) 299 

Question 10. 
When did the constitution of India come into effect?
(a) 26 November 1950 
(b) 26 November 1949
(c) 20 November 1951 
(d) 26 January 1950
Answer:
(d) 26 January 1950

Question 11. 
Who among the following was not a congress leader?
(a) G. Durgabai Deshmukh 
(b) Rajender Prasad
(c) Jaipal Singh 
(d) Abdul Kalam Azad
Answer:
(c) Jaipal Singh 

Question 12. 
Who among the following was not a member of the constituent Assembly?
(a) Rjgendra Prasad 
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) H.C.Mukheijee 
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer:
(d) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 13. 
Who is known as ‘Father of Indian Constitution’?
(a) B. R. Ambedkar 
(b) Shyama Prasad Mukheijee
(c) Mahatma Gandhi 
(d) Pandit Nehru
Answer:
(a) B. R. Ambedkar 

Question 14. 
The Preamble of which of the following constitutions involves God?
(a) United States of America 
(b) India
(c) South Africa 
(d) All of these
Answer:
(c) South Africa 

Question 15. 
What do you know about The Long Walk to Freedom’?
(a) An autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
(b) An autobiography of Nelson Mandela
(c) A documentary film
(d) A magazine
Answer:
(b) An autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Fill in the blanks:

Question 1.
Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in the year ............... 
Answer:
1964

Question 2.
African National Congress was the prominent political party of ............... 
Answer:
South Africa

Question 3.
On ............... Africa got its freedom.
Answer:
26 April, 1994

Question 4.
Constitution of Africa was designed in ............... years.
Answer:
4

Question 5.
................ is known as the supreme law of country. 
Answer:
Constituti

True or False:

Question 1.
Apartheid is the name of a system based on racial discrimination that was run in South Africa on a specific basis.
Answer:
True

Question 2.
It is not necessary to have a constitution in those countries that has democratic governance.
Answer:
False

Question 3.
In 1928, Motilal Nehru and eight other Congress leaders drafted a Constitution for India.
Answer:
True

Question 4.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India.
Answer:
False

Question 5.
The original preamble to the Constitution of India did not contain socialist and secular terms.
Answer:
True

Match the column:

Column A	Column B
(1) Founder of Jharkhand Party	(a) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
(2) First President of India	(b) Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi
(3) Founder of Republican Party of India	(c) Shyama Prasad Mukheijee
(4) Founder of Swatantra Party	(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(5) Founder of Bharatiya Jansangh	(e) Jaipal Singh

Answer:

Column A	Column B
(1) Founder of Jharkhand Party	(e) Jaipal Singh
(2) First President of India	(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(3) Founder of Republican Party of India	(a) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
(4) Founder of Swatantra Party	(b) Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi
(5) Founder of Bharatiya Jansangh	(c) Shyama Prasad Mukheijee

Very Short Answer Type Questions:

Question 1. 
What happened in Africa at the midnight of 26th April, 1994?
Answer:
 A new national flag of the Republic of South Africa was unfurled and a multi-racial government came into existence.

Question 2. 
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Answer: 
Hewas a nationalist leader of South Africa, whofought against racial discrimination.

Question 3. 
What did the White South African Government holds Nelson Mandela guilty of?
Answer: 
He and seven other leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for daring to oppose the apartheid regime in his country.

Question 4 
For whom was the apartheid system particularly oppressive?
Answer: 
The apartheid system was particularly oppressive for the blacks. They were forbidden from living in white areas.

Question 5. 
Which type of tactics did the white racist government of South Africa use to continue to rule?
Answer: 
The white racist government continued to rule by detaining, torturing and killing thousands of black and coloured people. 

Question 6. 
Many compromises were made by the whites and blacks. Mention one of them.
Answer: 
The whites agreed to the principle of majority rule and that one person one vote. The blacks agreed that majority rule would not be absolute.

Question 7. 
Highlight any one similarity between the story of South African struggle for freedom and the Indian national Movement.
Answer: 
Both the movements were against the whites of Europe who had come to these countries as trading companies.

Question 8. 
How had the Socialist revolution in Russia inspired the makers of the Indian constitution?
Answer: 
The Socialist revolution in Russia had inspired them to think of shaping a system based on social and economic equality.

Question 9. 
What is an unusual achievement for the Indian constitution?
Answer: 
Over the last half a century, no large social group or political party has ever questioned the legitimacy of the constitution itself. This is an unusal achievement for our constitution.

Question 10. 
Who was the first President of the newly born democracy in South Africa?
Answer: 
Nelson Mandela.

Question 11. 
Name the umbrella organisation that led the struggle against the policies of segregation.
Answer: 
African National Congress.

Question 12. 
Name the President of the Indian constituent assembly?
Answer: 
Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

Question 13. 
Which Indian politicians bitterly criticised Mahatma Gandhi’s vision?
Answer: 
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

Question 14. 
When was the constituent assembly of the constitution of independent India set up?
Answer: 
1946.

Question 15. 
Name the leader who used to write the magazine Young India in 1931?
Answer:
Mahatma Gandhi.

Question 16. 
What do we call a state where head of the state is an elected and not a hereditary person?
Answer: 
Republic.

Question 17. 
When was the new national flag of the Republic of South Africa hoisted for the first time?
Answer: 
At the midnight of 26th April, 1994.

Question 18.
When was the first meeting of the constituent assembly held?
Answer: 
In December 1946.

Question 19. 
How many amendments were considered while drafting the Indian constitution.
Answer: More than 2000.

Short Answer Type Questions:

Question 1.
The apartheid system was particularly oppressive for the blacks.” Justify the statement.
Answer: 

1. They were forbidden from living in white areas. They could work in white areas only if they had a permit.
2. Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets were all separate for the whites and blacks. This was called segregation.
3. They could not even visit the churches where the whites worshipped. Blacks could not form associations or protest against the terrible treatment.

Question 2. 
Regarding the constitution making what was the compromise reached between the blacks and whites?
Answer: 

1. The constitution of South Africa was drawn together by the party of whites which had rules through oppression and the party that led the freedom struggle.
2.  The constitution gave to its citizens the most extensive rights available in any country. After long negotiations both parties agreed to a compromise.
3. The whites agreed to the principle of majority rule and that of one person one vote. They also agreed to accept some basic rights for the poor and the workers.
4. The blacks agreed that the majority rule would not be absolute. They agreed that the majority would not take away the property of the white minority.

Question 3. 
Making of the Constitution for a huge and diverse country like India was not an easy affair’. Justify the statement.
Answer:
The making of the Constitution for a huge and diverse country like India was not an easy affair, because.

1. At that time, the people of India were emerging from the status of subj ects to that of citizens.
2. The country was bom through a partition on the basis of religious differences.
3. The British had left it to the rules of the princely states to decide whether they wanted to merge with India or with Pakistan or remain independent. The merger of these princely states was a difficult and uncertain task. When the Constitution was being written, the future of the country did not look as secure as it does today.

Question 4. 
Mention the landmark years in the making of the Indian constitution.
Answer:

1. As far back as 1928, Motilal Nehru and eight other Congress leaders drafted a constitution for India.
2. In 1931, at the Karachi Session of Indian National Congress leaders pondered what India’s constitution should be like. Elections held in 1937 to provincial Legislatures and ministers all over British India.
3. It was beneficial for Indians to gain experience.
4. That is why Indian Constitution adopted many institutional details from colonial laws like the Government of India Act 1935. 

Question 5. 
Define constituent assembly.
Answer: 

1. The drafting of the document called the constitution was done by an assembly of elected representatives called the constituent Assembly.
2. Elections of the constituent assembly were held in July 1946, its first meeting was held in December 1946.

Question 6. 
Enlist some striking facts about Indian constituent assembly?
Answer: 

1. Elections of the constituent assembly was held in july 1946.
2. Its first meeting was held in December 1946.
3. When the country was divided into India and Pakistan, the assembly was divided into the constituent assembly of India and that of Pakistan.
4. The constituent assembly that wrote the Indian constitutionhad 299 members.

Question 7. 
Highlight Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to the constitution of India.
Answer: 

1. However, Mahatma Gandhi was not a member of constituent assembly but his vision was followed by many members.
2. Years ago he wrote his magazine Young India that our constitution should release India from all thralldom and patronage.
3. He thought India is country where the people of all communities would live in perfect harmony, political equality will prevail.
4. Women will have same rights as men and their will be no place for untouchability.

Question 8. 
What did Ambedkar mean to say in the following lines? "On the 26th January 1950 we are going to enter a life of contradictions.”
Answer:

1. In his concluding speech to the Constituent Assembly, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar stated his anxiety over the unequal status of the Dalits. He said that in politics the Dalits would definitely enjoy equality but in social and economic life they would have inequality.
2. In politics they would be recognising the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. But in their social and economic life, they would continue to deny the principle of one man one value.
3. In this way, they would continue to live a life of contradictions. Naturally they need equality in social as well as economic life.

Question 9. 
In his speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’, Nehru said, ‘Freedom and power bring responsibility.’ Explain what he meant by this.
Answer: 

1. By saying that ‘Freedom and power bring responsibility’, Nehru meant that it is the responsibility of Indians to not to relax with ease after having got the freedom, but to constantly strive to fulfil the pledges taken.
2. He said that the service of India meant the service of the millions who suffered, it meant the removing of poverty, ignorance, disease and inequality of opportunity.

Question 10. 
What is the preamble of the constitution? What is the significance of ‘We the people of India’?
Answer: 
It is an introductory part of the constitution. It contains all the values that laid foundation of India’s democracy and soul of Constitution. It is called the key to the constitution. “We the people of India” means the constitution has been drawn up and enacted by the people through their representatives. .

Question 11. 
What does the preamble of the Indian constitution contain?
Answer: 

1. The Preamble is short statement of its basic values. It contains the philosophy on which the entire constitution has been built.
2. It provides a standard to examine and evaluate any law and action of government to find out whether it is good or bad.

Question 12. 
What do you understand by Constitutional Amendments’? Why are they essential?
Answer:

1. A change in the constitution made by the supreme legislative body in the country is known as constitutional amendment.
2. Indian constitution is very long and detailed document. Therefore it needs to be amended quite regularly to keep it update.
3. Constitution can be amended according to needs and aspirations of the people.
4. The constitution makers did not see it as a sacred, static and unalterable law. It is a live document which should fulfil the needs of citizens.

Long Answer Type Questions:

Question 1.
Describe about Nelson Mandela’s role in promoting democracy in the world. .
Answer:

1. Under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress, launched a non-violent movement against the policy of apartheid of the white government in South Africa.
2. He was given life imprisonment in 1964 for participating in the movement against apartheid. While in prison Mandela led the anti-apartheid movement for 28 years.
3. In 1990, because of the activities of the African National Congress and the support received from other countries of the world, South African rule became completely secluded in the world.
4. Finally in 1994, the white government of South Africa declared South Africa a republic. After 28 years, Nelson Mandela was released from prison and in 1994 the country’s first democratic elections were held and Nelson Mandela was elected as President of South Africa.

Question 2. 
What is constitution? What is its importance? '
Answer:
The constitution of country is a set of written rules that are accepted by all the people.living together in the country. The constitution is the supreme law that determines the relationship among the people living in a territory and also the relationship between the people and government.
Importance of the constitution:
Importance of the constitution can be described under following points-

1. Trust and cooperation: The constitution generates a degree of trust . cooperation that is necessary for different kinds of people to live together.
2. Formation of government: It specifies how the government will be constituted, who will have the power to take which decision.
3. Determination of rights: It lays down the limits on the powers of the government and tells us what the rights of the citizens are.
4. (iv) Fxpression of people’s aspirations: It expresses the aspirations of the people about creating a good society.

Question 3. 
Which four ideals have been emphasised in the Preamble to the
Constitution of India?
Answer:
Ideal in the constitution: The following ideals have been emphasized in the
Preamble to the Indian Constitution.-

(i) Justice:
The preamble states that the people of India adopt this constitution to provide social, political and economic justice to all citizens of India. This means that Indian citizens will not be discriminated against on the basis of caste, religion and gender. Government should have to work for the disadvantaged groups to reduce social inequalities and welfare of all.

(ii) Freedom: The preamble states that citizens will be provided freedom of thought, expression, belief, religion and worship.

(iii) Equality:
The Preamble to the Constitution lays emphasis on providing dignity and equality of opportunity to the citizens. This means that all are equal before the law; The government will not make any discrimination laws. At the same time, the government will provide equal opportunities for the development of citizens’ personality.

(iv) Fratemity:
The Preamble emphasises increasing fraternity among citizens, i.e. the Preamble states that the Constitution will try to increase fraternity among the citizens of India. The constitution will treat all citizens as members
of one family. No citizen shall treat his fellow citizen with inferiority.

Question 4. 
How are the institutional arrangements described in the Indian
Constitution?
Answer: 
Explanation of institutional arrangements in Indian constitution:
In the Indian Constitution, the institutional arrangements are explained as follows:

(i) Determination of election process and powers of government institutions:
The Indian constitution has provided the procedure for election of individuals to rule the country and it is stated under which rules the rulers should be elected. It defines who will have how much power to take which decisions.

(ii) Determination of government limits and citizens’ rights: 
The constitution decides the limit of the working of the government by providing some rights to the citizens. Government cannot violate these rights of the citizen.

(iii) Constitutional remedies:
s Along with the description of the basic rights of Indian people in the constitution, there is also a provision for constitutional remedies in the event of violating them.

(iv) Clear interpretation of government’s organs:
The constitution clearly explains the structure, power and functions of all the three organs of government - legislature, judiciary and executive.