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Think About It 6.1–6.3 (part 4 of 6)

  1. Exercise 6.1

    ◈ Why is it important that the ultimate source of power rests with the people in a democracy? ◈ How does people’s participation through voting strengthen popular sovereignty?

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    ◈ Why is it important that the ultimate source of power rests with the people?NCERT_Solution_Class9_SocialScience_Ch6_TAI_Q6-1
    Because that is what popular sovereignty means — the state derives its authority from the people, so the government rules with their consent.
    A government that gets its power from the people must answer to them, and can be replaced at the next election.
    It stops power from settling permanently with one person or a small group, and keeps rule from being arbitrary.
    The laws and policies made by such a government carry the weight of the people's approval.
    ◈ How does people's participation through voting strengthen popular sovereignty?
    Every citizen $\displaystyle 18$ years of age and above has the right to vote by secret ballot — the Universal Adult Franchise — so authority is handed over by the people themselves.
    Each vote is equal, so the poorest voter counts exactly as much as the richest.
    Because elections come round again, representatives know they must keep the people's trust.
    Scale makes the point: the chapter records a voter base of over $\displaystyle 96.8$ crore in $\displaystyle 2024$, the largest participatory exercise anywhere.

  2. Exercise 6.2

    What do you think would happen if the same organ of the government made laws, implemented them, and enforced them? Share your thoughts with your classmates.

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    Power would be concentrated in one organ, and democracy would be badly weakened.
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    The whole point of the separation of powers is that the legislature makes laws, the executive implements them and the judiciary interprets them — so no single organ holds it all.
    There would be no checks and balances: nobody independent left to ask whether a law agrees with the Constitution.
    The judiciary's power to declare a law unconstitutional, and to review even constitutional amendments, would disappear.
    Misuse of power and arbitrary action would become easy, because the same body that made the rule would judge whether it had broken it.
    Citizens would have no impartial forum to defend their rights against the government — the safeguard the chapter calls procedure established by law would be worth little.

  3. Exercise 6.3

    As we studied in earlier grades, the village serves as a unit of grassroots democracy in India, empowering rural communities to participate in decision-making processes. Many Indian leaders, such as Chaudhary Charan Singh and Babu Jagjivan Ram, who emerged from these rural backgrounds, advocated for the rights of the rural poor and other marginalised sections of society. Explore and discuss the contributions of eminent Indian leaders who worked towards strengthening grassroots democracy.

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    The task: find out and discuss what Indian leaders did to strengthen democracy at the village level — this needs research, not recall.
    What the chapter itself gives you
    The village is the unit of grassroots democracy in India, empowering rural communities to take part in decision-making.
    Chaudhary Charan Singh and Babu Jagjivan Ram emerged from rural backgrounds and advocated for the rights of the rural poor and other marginalised sections of society. That is the whole of what this chapter says about them.
    The chapter also shows the machinery such leaders argued for: the PESA Act (Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas), $\displaystyle 1996$, which empowers the Gram Sabha as the primary decision-making body in tribal areas; Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in specific north-eastern regions; and reservation for women in Panchayats under Article $\displaystyle 243$(d).
    The shape to follow for each leader you choose
    Where the leader came from, and whose cause they took up.
    What they actually did — a law, a movement, an office held, a reform pushed.
    How it strengthened decision-making at the village level.
    One line on what changed for ordinary rural people because of it.
    What a good answer must contain
    Two or three named leaders, each with a specific contribution, not general praise.
    A named source for every factual claim, since the chapter supplies no biographical detail.