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Fundamental and Human Rights

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This set of questions covers fundamental rights, human rights, and constitutional provisions like the Right against Exploitation. It also explores international declarations and individual liberties. These topics are frequently tested in UPSC and state PSC examinations.

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Fundamental and Human Rights Questions

Multiple choice

If government does not protect the rights of man, what do people have the right to do?

  1. Strip elected officials of their titles.

  2. Replace the existing government with a new government.

  3. People have no rights under the government.

  4. People must work with the existing government.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Declaration asserts that when a government becomes destructive of the ends of protecting rights, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new government.

Multiple choice

Which of the following are Fundamental rights

  1. Right to equality

  2. Right to freedom

  3. Right against Exploitation

  4. All of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Indian Constitution guarantees several Fundamental Rights, including the Right to Equality, Right to Freedom, and Right against Exploitation. Therefore, all of these are correct.

Multiple choice

According to the Declaration of Independence, all people had unalienable rights. They are..

  1. life, liberty, and property

  2. life, liberty and prosperity

  3. life, liberty, and popularity

  4. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Declaration of Independence explicitly lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as unalienable rights. Property is a Lockeian concept but not the specific phrase used in the Declaration.

Multiple choice

Peaceful Employment

  1. Full Faith and Credit Clause

  2. Necessary & Proper/ Elastic Clause

  3. Supremacy Clause

  4. Privileges and Immunities Clause
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, Section 2 prevents states from discriminating against out-of-state citizens regarding fundamental rights, which includes the right to pursue peaceful employment and conduct business without unjustified discrimination.

Multiple choice

provides a strong foundation for rights. human rights must be acknowledged and are inviolable

  1. Kant’s Ethics of Duty Theory

  2. Utilitarian Theory of Ethics

  3. Theory of Justice

  4. Theory of Rights
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Kant's duty-based ethics (deontology) asserts that individuals have intrinsic value and must never be treated merely as means to an end. This principle of respecting human dignity provides a robust philosophical foundation for the concept of inviolable human rights.

Multiple choice

During National Emergency______ rights of the citizens were suspended.

  1. Moral

  2. Political

  3. Fundamental
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C Correct answer
Explanation

During a National Emergency in India, declared under Article 352 of the Constitution, certain Fundamental Rights of citizens can be suspended. Specifically, Article 19 (which guarantees freedoms like speech and assembly) is automatically suspended, and the right to move courts for the enforcement of other rights can also be suspended by presidential order. Moral and political rights are not formal constitutional categories suspended in this manner.

Multiple choice

The Declaration of Rights of Men and Citizens proclaimed:

  1. The equality of all men before the law.

  2. Political and religious freedom.

  3. Sovereignty resides in the nation not in the monarch.

  4. All of the above.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a foundational document of the French Revolution, established equality before the law, protected fundamental freedoms, and shifted sovereignty from the monarch to the nation.

Multiple choice

Which Right according to Constitutuion gives us the right to make amendments

  1. Right to Expression

  2. Right to constitutional remedy

  3. Right to Equality

  4. Right to Information
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Right to Constitutional Remedies (Article 32) allows citizens to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of their fundamental rights, which is essential for protecting the integrity of the Constitution.

Multiple choice

In the USA, these rights include all of the rights listed

  1. management rights

  2. transfer rights

  3. alienation rights

  4. ownership rights
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Ownership rights represent the bundle of rights that an owner possesses over a property. This includes the right to manage, transfer, and exclude others.

Multiple choice

Use rights allow an individual, government, or community: (select all that apply)

  1. to use the natural resource

  2. to decide for what purpose they want to use the resource

  3. to use land for farming or building houses

  4. to build a hotel
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A,B,C Correct answer
Explanation

Use rights permit the holder to benefit from the resource. This includes extracting value, farming, or building, provided it aligns with the scope of the granted rights. Building a hotel is typically a specific development right, not a general use right.

Multiple choice

The Human trafficking and forced labour are prohibited under ____.

  1. Culture and Educational Rights

  2. Right against Exploitation

  3. Right to freedom of Religion

  4. Right to Property
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Indian Constitution provides the Right against Exploitation, which specifically prohibits human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. This is covered under Articles 23 and 24.