constitution

Cards (15)

  • It provides guidelines on how laws are made, enacted, implemented, and interpreted by various branches of government.
  • A constitution is a set of fundamental rules determining how a country or state is run.
  • Federalism refers to the existence of more than one level of government in the country.
  • There are 3 organs of government.
  • The legislature refers to elected representatives by the people who make laws.
  • The executive is a smaller group of people who are responsible for implementing laws and running the government.
  • Judiciary is an independent body that interprets the law and decides whether it has been broken
  • secularism is the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.
  • the rule of law means everyone, including those with power, must obey the same rules as ordinary citizens.
  • democracy is where all members of society have equal rights and opportunities to participate in decision making processes.
  • The constitution came into force on 26th january
  • The constitution was adopted in November 1949 and was signed by the president and the prime minister
  • The constituent assembly drafted the Indian Constitution which was then ratified by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949
  • 300 people who became members of the constituent assembly in 1946 wrote India's constitution.
  • BR Ambedkar is known as the father of the constitution