Constitution and Constitutional Government

A constitution describes the structure and organization of the government

A constitution may be deliberate creation or result of gradual evolution

A constitution must be written

A constitution must specify the rights of the people

U.K.

U.S.A.

U.S.S.R.

India

It is available in writing in one single document

Is available in written form in two documents

Most of the provisions of the constitution lie scattered

None of the above

The rule and procedures concerning the relationships among the structures of Government and their principal powers and functions

A fundamental statement of laws governing the citizens’s political rights, the political institutions, their functions and their relationships within a particular political community

A primary source of constitutional law, which serves as a guide for the decisions of the courts of law which interpret the rules

The ordering of political processes and institutions on the basic of a document that lays down the pattern of formal political institutions and embodies the basic political norms of a society

Available as written in one single document

One in which all the customs and conventions have been reduced to writing

One in which all the provisions are pieced together in one or more documents

None of the above

Democratic governments

Despotic governments

All governments

Non-monarchical states

Freedom of press

Freedom of association

Freedom to exploit the weaker sections

Freedom to approach the courts

The Constitution is above the states

The Constitution is above the Centre

The Constitution is above ordinary laws of land

The Constitution is above all institutions, civil servants and citizens

The end of seventeenth century

The close of the nineteenth century

The beginning of the present century

The end of eighteenth century

Principles of number and wealth

Principles of population and military strength

Religion and power

Principles of number and quality of rule