CBSE 2025 · Region 5 · Set 1 · Q28 · 3 marks
Evaluate the system of 'Checks and Balances' in the horizontal distribution of power in India.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) The horizontal form of power sharing allows different organs of government such as the legislature, executive and judiciary placed at the same level to exercise different powers.
(ii) Such a separation ensures that none of the organs can exercise unlimited power.
(iii) Each organ checks the others.
(iv) This results in a balance of power among various institutions.
(v) In a democracy, even though ministers and government officials exercise power, they are responsible to the Parliament or State Assemblies.
(vi) Although judges are appointed by the executive, they can check the functioning of executive or laws made by the legislatures.
(vii) This arrangement is called a system of checks and balances.
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