Q – Indian Constitution has taken a certain feature of the Constitution of other countries, which country has contributed to the framing of the ‘Directive Principles of State Policy’?
(a) France
(b) Ireland
(c) Japan
(d) U.S.A.
U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl.) (Pre) 2004
Ans. (b)
| The Directive Principles of State Policy are enumerated in Part IV of the Indian Constitution from Articles 36 to 51.
The framers of the Constitution borrowed this idea from the Irish Constitution of 1937, which had copied it from the Spanish Constitution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar described these principles as ‘novel features‘ of the Indian Constitution. The Directive Principles along with the Fundamental Rights contain the philosophy of the Constitution and is the soul of the Constitution. Granville Austin has described the Directive Principles and the Fundamental Rights as the ‘Conscience of the Constitution‘. Source : Indian Polity – M Laxmikanth. |