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Social Science · 2025 · 3 marks
CBSE 2025 · Region 3 · Set 1 · Q27
How does democracy establish an accountable, responsible and legitimate governance? Explain.
How does democracy establish an accountable, responsible and legitimate governance ? Explain.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) People have the right to choose their rulers and people will have control over the rulers.
(ii) Citizens should be able to participate in decision-making so that the government is accountable to the citizens.
(iii) Decision-making will be based on norms and procedures.
(iv) Democratic government is legitimate government. It may be slow, less efficient, not always very responsive or clean but a democratic government is people’s own government.
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