Social Studies VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

People can criticize the unpopular law, hold public meetings, and write about it in newspaper report to 74 news channels. In their way, citizens can express their unwillingness to accept repressive laws framed by the Parliament.

A Bill is a draft statute which becomes law after it is passed by both the Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President. All legislative proposals are brought before Parliament in the forms of Bills.

In ancient India, there were countless and overlapping local laws. Different communities were given the liberty to enforce the laws according to their need. In some cases, the punishment that two persons received for the same crime varied depending on their caste. The lower castes were punished more harshly.

According to the Hindu Succession Amendment Act 2005, sons, daughters and their mothers can get an equal share of family property after the death of their father.

Historians refute the claim that the British introduced the rule of law in India because colonial law was arbitrary, and the Indian nationalists played a prominent role in the development of the legal sphere in British India.

Citizens can express their views in relation to laws made in the Parliament in the following ways:

1. By holding public meetings.
2. By writing about it in newspapers.
3. By reporting to TV news channels etc.

1. The law recognizes the right of women to live in a shared household, protection against violence women can get monetary relief to meet their expense including medical costs.
2. Women wanted protection against being beaten, and the right to continue living in a shared household. Thus, the law against domestic violence was introduced to address these issues.

One example of arbitraries that continued to exist as part of British law is the sedition act of 1870. The idea of sedition was understood within this act. Any person protesting or criticizing the British government could be arrested without due trial.

1. Unpopular laws: The laws which are constitutionally valid and hence legal but are unpopular and unacceptable to people because they feel that the intention behind it is unfair and harmful. Eg. Municipal laws.
2. Controversial laws: The laws which favour one group and disregard the other.

This law was arbitrary because persons were arrested for a variety of reasons that were seldom clarified beforehand as well as because those arrested were often kept in jail without a trial.