Download Goa University BA LLB-5 Years 2016 April 3rd Semester Constitutional Law I Question Paper

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B.A. LL.B. (Semester III) Examination April 2016.

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -I

Duration: 3 Hours.

Total Marks: 75

Instructions:

1. Answer any Eight questions from Q. No. 1 to 12. 8X8

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2. Q. No. 13 and Q. No. 14 are compulsory.
3. Students are advised to incorporate the exact question number in the answer scripts.

1. Enumerate the various salient features of the Indian Constitution.
2. "Equality is antithetic to arbitrariness." Explain the new concept of equality with relevant case laws.
3. "Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy." Discuss the freedom of the press under the Indian constitution.

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4. Fundamental rights are enforceable against the "State". Discuss the judicial interpretation of the term 'other authorities' in Art 12.
5. Examine the Indian concept of 'procedure established by law' and distinguish it from the American concept of 'due process'.
6. Accused is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty, examine the rights of the accused person guaranteed by the constitution.
7. Discuss the scope of writ jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
8. Maneka Gandhi's Case has revolutionized the rights of prisoners. Comment

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9. Examine constitutional safeguards to persons arrested under preventive detention laws.
10. Secularism is a basic feature of the constitution. Comment.
11. Democracy is not the tyranny of the majority over the minority, explain the right of minorities to establish educational institutions with the help of cases.
12. Examine the relationship between directive principles and fundamental rights

13. Write short notes on any two: (3x2=6)

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1. Right to Association
2. Rule of law
3. Doctrine of eclipse

14. Write short notes on any two: (2.5x2= 5)

1. Habeas Corpus

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2. Right to die
3. Right to compensation