Discuss the role played by the constitution in a democracy
The Constitution helps to serve as a set of laws and principles that everyone in the country can agree on as a basis for how they want the country to be governed. It also describes citizens as believing that their country should support them .It is important as it protects the rights of the individual, as well as its basic principles that govern the country.
The Constitution places the power of government in the hands of citizens. It limits the power of the state. It is the national constitution, which establishes three administrative structures, in particular, the legislature, administration and the judiciary. A constitution can defend rights of minorities (including the all-important minority of one). It can eliminate popular direct vote which is too easily swayed. It can include checks and balances which slows the legislative processes and blocks offensive violations of individual rights. It can include guarantees of legal processes and fundamental legal restrictions such as laws that make actions illegal after the fact. The Constitution gives government authority to citizens. It impedes government capacity and creates a system of evaluation and evaluation.
A note on Salt Satyagraha and the Chipko movement.
One of the greatest protests for India's freedom struggle was Dandi March also known as Salt Satyagraha. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi with his followers. Indians had been making salt from seawater free of cost. Then the British pass the Salt Act .They took over the production of salt and imposed a salt tax. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi started the Dandi march from Sabarmati Ashram towards the small coastal village of Dandi. . The protest was against the salt tax imposed by the colonial government.
The Chipko movement was a peaceful environmental protest led by rural Indian women. in 1973.Opposed to commercial logging and the government's policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging, wrapping their arms around trees so that they could not be felled. These rural communities embraced trees to obstruct loggers from cutting them down. It was against large-scale cutting of trees by timber contractors in the Uttarakhand hills.
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