[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2022: INSIGHTS STATIC QUIZ, 29 December 2021 – Polity – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: d)

Facilitating Haz pilgrims or managing Shrine management boards at temples and mosques does not constitute violation of Indian model of secularism.

The banning of untouchability or the intrusion of state in triple talaq matter clearly shows that the state has and will keep intervening in religious matter as and when needed. Indian model of secularism does not demand strict separation of religion and state.

Solution: b)

Both the aspects of freedom — the absence of external constraints as well as the existence of conditions in which people can develop their talents — are important. A free society would be one which enables all its members to develop their potential with the minimum of social constraints.

In order to be free, an individual should be able to make decisions individually, with a support of collective decision-making in which no one individual dominates the others.

Solution: a)

The Preamble to the Indian Constitution is based on the ‘Objective Resolution’, drafted and moved by Pandit Nehru, and adopted by the Constituent Assembly.

Preamble has been amended by the 42^nd Constitutional Amendment Act (1976), which added three new words—socialist, secular and integrity.

The Preamble is neither a source of power to legislature nor a prohibition upon the powers of legislature.

Solution: c)

In the Berubari Union case (1960), the Supreme Court said that the Preamble shows the general purposes behind the several provisions in the Constitution, and is thus a key to the minds of the makers of the Constitution. Further, where the terms used in any article are ambiguous or capable of more than one meaning, some assistance at interpretation may be taken from the objectives enshrined in the Preamble. Despite this recognition of the significance of the Preamble, the Supreme Court specifically opined that Preamble is not a part of the Constitution.
In the Kesavananda Bharati case17 (1973), the Supreme Court rejected the earlier opinion and held that Preamble is a part of the Constitution. It observed that the Preamble is of extreme importance and the Constitution should be read and interpreted in the light of the grand and noble vision expressed in
the Preamble.

Solution: a)

The Preamble has been amended only once so far, in 1976, by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, which has added three new words—Socialist, Secular and Integrity—to the Preamble. This amendment was held to be valid.

The Preamble is neither a source of power to legislature nor a prohibition upon the powers of legislature. It is non-justiciable, that is, its provisions are not enforceable in courts of law.