Important Terms and Concepts - Constitutional Design
Category : 9th Class
CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
- Constitution. The fundamental legal document according to which the government of a country functions. This contains the basic laws or set of rules which define the main organs and their jurisdiction as well as the basic rights of the citizens.
- Cabinet Mission. In February 1946, the British government sent the Cabinet Mission to India. It proposed the formation of a Federation, with a union government and three types of states and also proposed the formation of a Constituent Assembly and an interim government.
- Objective Resolution. On December 13,1946 Jawaharlal Nehru moved a resolution in the Constituent Assembly proposing the main objectives or aims of the new Constitution to be made for free India. It is known as the Objective Resolution.
- Drafting Committee. A committee set up to draft the Constitution.
- Amendment. The term means change or modification. It is used in connection with changes made in the Constitution of a country. The procedure of amendment of the Indian Constitution is given in Article 368 of the Constitution itself.
- Democracy. A form of government which is chosen by the people to work for their welfare and can be changed by them.
- Preamble. It is an introduction to the Constitution which explains the aims and objectives of the Constitution.
- Republic. A country in which the head of state is elected and not hereditary.
- Secularism. It implies religious freedom. The state does not have any official religion of its own. Everyone has the right to preach, practice and profess any religion.
- Universal Adult It refers to the right to vote for all the adult citizens of a country without any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, colour, sex or education. It is based on the principle of one person one vote.
- Apartheid. A system of segregation of Whites from Blacks on the basis of race. Each group had to live in separate areas, go to separate schools and the non-Whites had no voting rights.
- Constituent Assembly. An assembly of people's representatives that writes a constitution for a country.
Philosophy. The most fundamental principles underlying one's thoughts and actions.
- Philosophy. The most fundamental principles underlying one’s thoughts and actions.
- Treason. The offence of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance.
- Tryst. A meeting or meeting place that has been agreed upon.
