What is Government Social Science - What is Government

Any person driving without a license can be?

When was only a small minority allowed to vote?

Krishna Raja Sagara Dam in:

Universal adult franchise means:

A mark is put on the finger to make sure that a person casts only ______.

The Parliamentary form of government exist in________.

A situation where there is no government is called ________.

A dispute regarding the election of the President is referred to the________.

Universal Adult Suffrage is an important device of __________.

India is referred as the _________ Government.

In representative democracies, people do not participate directly but choose their representatives through an election process. True/ False

The members of the Gram Sabha elects a Sarpanch called the Panchayat President. True/ False

The names of the contesting candidates along with the party name and symbols are listed in the ballot paper. True/ False

Why Health Wardens are appointed in every village?

Define democracy.

What is a ’ballot paper’?

What is the full form of MP?

The two great mountain ranges that surround Ladakh.

Why do you think the government needs to make rules for everyone in the form of laws?

Before Independence what was the voting system in India?

If the people feel that a law is not easy to be followed, what can they do?

Why were several people including Gandhiji shocked?

Why is a person driving without licence jailed or fined large amount of money?

Gandhiji strongly believed that every adult in India should be given the right to vote. However, a few people don't share his views. They feel that illiterate people, who are mainly poor, should not be given the right to vote. What do you think? Do you think this would be a form of discrimination? Give five points to support your view and share these with the class.

Name two essential features of a democratic government.

What do you understand by the word 'government'? List five ways in which you think the government affects your daily life.

Write short notes on features of a democratic country.

Why are some rules to be made?

What was the suffrage movement? What did it accomplish?

Give some examples of the institutions of the Government.

What are the main features of a democratic country?

Nowhere in the world have governments willingly shared power. All over Europe and USA, women and the poor have had to fight for participation in government. Women’s struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women’s suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means right to vote. During the War, many men were away fighting, and because of this women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men’s work. Many women began organising and managing different kinds of work. When people saw this they began to wonder why they had created so many unfair stereotypes about women and what they were capable of doing. So women began to be seen as being equally capable of making decisions. The suffragettes demanded the right to vote for all women and to get their demands heard they chained themselves to railings in public places. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes, and they had to be fed by force. American women got the right to vote in 1920 while women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men some years later, in 1928.Study the above advertisement and answer the questions that follow:

1. Where and who had to fight for participation in government1?
2. When had women’s struggle got strengthened?
3. Why was this struggle called women’s suffrage movement?
4. Why were women called to work in men’s field during the war?
5. Why were women seen as being equally capable of making decisions?
6. Who were suffragettes?
7. When did American women got right to vote?
8. When did UK women get voting right equal to men?

Examine the need for government in a country.