Understanding Laws Class 8 Extra Questions and Answer Civics Chapter 4 Very Short Answers Type

The document provides 20 short questions and answers about laws and legal concepts in India. It covers topics like the role of citizens in rejecting repressive laws, key figures in the Civil Rights Movement like Rosa Parks, the meaning of evolution, examples of British arbitrariness like the Sedition Act of 1870 and Rowlatt Act, the Jallianwala Bagh incident in 1919, leaders arrested for protesting the Rowlatt Act, the Hindu Succession Amendment Act of 2005, and the role of Parliament in making laws.

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Understanding Laws Class 8 Extra Questions and Answer Civics Chapter 4 Very

Short Answers Type

Question 1.
In a democracy like ours what can a citizen do to reject the repressive laws framed by the
Parliament?
Answer:
In a democracy like ours, citizens can express unwillingness for the reflection of the
repressive laws.

Question 2.
Name the African American woman who played a key role in the starting of the Civil Right
Movement.
Answer:
Rosa Parks was the African American women who Started the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 3.
What does the term Evolution refer to in general?
Answer:
Evolution refers to the process of development from a simple to a complex form and is often
used to discuss the development of a species of plants and animals.

Question 4.
State the two examples of-Arbitrariness performed by the British.
Answer:
The two examples are:

1. Sedition Act of 1870

2. The Rowlatt Act.

Question 5.
When did the Jallianwala Bagh incident take place?
Answer:
This incident took place on 13th April 1919.

Question 6.
Name the two leaders arrested for the protests against the Rowlatt Act.
Answer:
The two leaders were Dr. Satyapal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew.

Question 7.
What does the Hindu Succession Amendment Act 2005 say?
Answer:
According to this law, sons, daughter and their mother can get an equal share of family
property.
Question 8.
What did the Rowlatt allow the Britishers to perform as arbitrariness?
Answer:
Rowlatt Act allowed the Britishers to imprison people without due trial.

Question 9.
In which year was the sedition Act was introduced?
Answer:
In 1870.

Question 10.
Who is known to be the incharge of making law?
Answer:
Parliament in incharge of making laws.

Question 11.
On what basis law cannot discriminate between persons?
Answer:
Law cannot discriminate between persons on the basis of their religion, caste and gender.

Question 12.
What was scenario of local laws in Ancient India?
Answer:
In Ancient India, there were innumerable and often overlapping local laws.

Question 13.
When does the system of law began to further evolve?
Answer:
System of law began to further evolve during colonial period.

Question 14.
Who is believed to be the introducer of the rule of law in India?
Answer:
It is believed that British colonials were the introducers of the Rule of law in India.

Question 15.
Who began to protest and criticize the arbitrary use of authority by the British?
Answer:
The Indian Nationalists began protesting and criticizing the arbitrary use of authority by the
British.

Question 16.
According which new law sons, daughters and their mothers get an equal share of family
property?
Answer:
Hindu Succession Act 2005.
Question 17.
When did standing committee submitted its recommendation for the implementation of
Domestic violence Act?
Answer:
In May 2002.

Question 18.
In which year did the Rowlatt act came into effect?
Answer:
In 1919.

Question 19.
Define the term Repressive.
Answer:
It means to control severely in order to prevent free and natural development or expression.

Question 20.
What is meant by ‘criticise’?
Answer:
It means to find fault with or disapprove of a person or thing.

Understanding Laws Class 8 Extra Questions and Answer Civics Chapter 4 Short
Answers Type
Question 1.
Define ‘Sedition’.
Answer:
This applies to anything that the government might consider as striating up resistance or
rebellion against it. In such cases, government does not need absolute evidence in order to
arrest persons. Under the sedition Act of 1870, the British had a very broad interpretation of
what constituted sedition, and what this meant was that they could arrest and detain any
person they would under this act.

Question 2.
Describe the incident that led to the of Civil Rights Movements and the Civil Rights Act in
1964 in the U.S.A.
Answer:
Rosa Parks an African – American woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white
man on December 1,1955. She was protesting against the law on segregation that divided up
all public spaces, including the streets, between the whites and the Africans – Americans.

Her refusal was a key event that marked the start of the Civil Rights Movement that led to the
Civil Rights Act in 1964 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national
origin in the U.S.A.

Question 3.
Why is it more important to refer women who face violence as survivors rather than as
victims?
Answer:
Often women who face violence or are abused are seen as victims. But women struggle in
several different ways to survive these situations. Therefore, it is move accurate to refer to
them as survivors rather than as victims.

Question 4.
Describe the process after which Domestic Violence Act came into effect in 2006.
Answer:
In December 2002, the Standing Committee submitted its recommendations to the Rajya
Sabha and these were also tabled in the Lok Sabha. The Committee’s report accepted most of
the demands of the women’s, groups. Finally a new bill was reintroduced in Parliament in
2005. After being passed in both the house of the Parliament, it was sent to the president for
his assent. The protection of women from Domestic violence came into effect in 2006.

Question 5.
How can we say that Parliament has an important role in making laws?
Answer:
The Parliament has an important role in making laws. There are many ways through which
this takes place and it is often different groups in society that raise the need for a particular
law. An important role of Parliament is to be sensitive to the problems faced by the people.
The issues are brought to the attention of the Parliament and the issues to become law.

Understanding Laws Class 8 Extra Questions and Answer Civics Chapter 4 Long
Answers Type
Question 1.
What do your understand by domestic violence? Explain how Domestic Violence Act 2005
helps in understanding the term ‘Domestic’ better.
Answer:
Domestic violence refers to the injury or harm caused by an adult male, usually the husband,
against his wife. Injury might be caused by physically beating up the woman or by
emotionally abusing her. Abuse of the women can also include verbal, sexual and economic
abuse.

The protection of women from Domestic violence Act 2005 extend the understanding to the
term ‘domestic’ to include all women who ‘live or have lived together in a shared household’
with the male member who is perpetrating the violence.

Question 2.
Starting from the Rowlatt Act to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, briefly explain the events,
also by mentioning the dates.
Answer:
The British passed the Rowlatt Act which allowed the British government to imprison people
without due trial. Indian rationalists including Mahatma Gandhi were vehement in their
opposition the Rowlatt Act. Despite the large number of protests, the Rowlatt Act came into
effect on 10th march 1919.
In Punjab, protests against this act continued quite actively and on April 10 two leaders of the
women, Dr. Satyapal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew were arrested. To protest these arrests, a
public meeting was held on 13th April at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. General Dyer entered
the park with his troops to fire. Several hundreds of people died in this gunfire and many
more were wounded including women and children