Indian Politics Questions

Government can be classified in three manners:

(1) who participates,

(2) geographic distribution of power, and

(3) legislative/executive relationship.

Who can participate is generally broken down into two forms of government,

democracy or dictatorship

While the legislative/executive relationship is broken down into

presidential or parliamentary

The geographic distribution of power is broken down into unitary, federal, and confederation (confederal).

Confederal System of Government ::

A system of government where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government.

Today, no nation follows a confederal system. Organizations, like the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States, are based on the ideas of a confederal system. Several nations make up these organizations, but they still retain the majority of their independence.

Sukumar Sen, a civil servant who served as the first Chief Election Commissioner of India from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958.

Dr. BR Ambedkar was elected to Constituent Assembly from West Bengal.

Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal government spends some of its money. In general, the appropriations process addresses the discretionary portion of the budget – spending ranging from national defense to food safety to education to federal employee salaries, but excludes mandatory spending, such as Medicare and Social Security, which is spent automatically according to formulas.

Hence, congress grants funds to federal agencies and programs during the appropriations process.

A right is enumerated if it is not explicitly stated in a constitution, but inferred from other legal rights written in the constitution.

The first Indian woman President of Indian National Congress was Sarojini Naidu in the year 1925.

First woman to become the president of INC - Annie Besant 1917.