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Assignment Civics - 9 - Chapter - 1 - 2

This document contains two assignments from Wisdom World School in Kurukshetra, India for a Grade 9 Civics class. The first assignment asks students to define terms related to democracy such as referendum and representative democracy. It also asks how challenges to democracy can be minimized and how democracy improves decision making. The second assignment asks students to define constitutional terms like preamble, sovereign, and secular. It asks about the drafting of the Indian constitution and key figures like B.R. Ambedkar involved in the process.

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Assignment Civics - 9 - Chapter - 1 - 2

This document contains two assignments from Wisdom World School in Kurukshetra, India for a Grade 9 Civics class. The first assignment asks students to define terms related to democracy such as referendum and representative democracy. It also asks how challenges to democracy can be minimized and how democracy improves decision making. The second assignment asks students to define constitutional terms like preamble, sovereign, and secular. It asks about the drafting of the Indian constitution and key figures like B.R. Ambedkar involved in the process.

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Wisdom World School, Kurukshetra

Assignment - 1
Topic: What is Democracy? Why Democracy?
Grade – IX (Civics)

CHAPTER – 1 (DEMOCRATIC POLITICS)


WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? WHY DEMOCRACY?

1. What does referendum mean?


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2. Name the Chinese Parliament.
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3. When did Zimbabwe attain independence?
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4. Expand PRI.
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5. What was the ‘Legal Framework Order’ passed by Prevez Musharef in August 2002?
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6. What is representative democracy?
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7. How can challenges to democracy be minimised?
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8. How does democracy improve the quality of decision making?
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9. What is direct democracy? Give example of any one country that follows direct
democracy.
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10. Explain the meaning of the word democracy.


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11. How President of China is elected?


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Wisdom World School, Kurukshetra
Assignment - 1
Topic: Constitutional Design
Grade – IX (Civics)

CHAPTER – 2
CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

1. What do you know about Constitutional Amendment?


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2. Expand ANC and who formed it?
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Langabale Dube
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3 Who played a key role in drafting our constitution?
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4. How many amendments were considered by the Drafting committee?
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5. What resolution was made in the 1931 Karachi Session?
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6. When did the constituent Assembly adopt the constitution of India? When did it come
into force?
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7. Who was the first person to draft a constitution for India?
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8. How many members did the Constituent Assembly of India have?
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9. Explain the meaning of the following terms :
a) Preamble
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b) Sovereign
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c) Republic
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d) Secular
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e) Fraternity
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f) Democratic
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10. Explain the meaning of the word Apartheid


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11. What is the basic difference between the Parliamentary and Presidential form of

government?

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