Civics :- Power sharing in democracy Very short answer type question? Power partnership in democracy class 10 question answer

   

            

              Very short answer type questions?

 

 

Question 1. Name the two countries of Asia in which there was conflict between two linguistic and ethnic groups?

Answer – Sri Lanka and Lebanon.

Question 2. Which languages ​​are spoken in Belgium? 

Answer – Dutch, French and German.

Question 3. Why are many Sri Lankan Tamils ​​called Indian Tamils?

Ans- They are called Indian Tamils ​​because they are the descendants of people brought from India to work on the plantations during the colonial rule.

Question 4. What is meant by power sharing?

Answer- Power sharing means- division of power between different parts of the government or division of powers in the government at different levels.

Question 5. What is the horizontal division of power?

Answer- Horizontal division of power means-division of power among different organs of the government, legislature, executive and judiciary. Different organs of the government exercise their respective powers while remaining at the same level.

Question 6. What is vertical division of power?

Answer- In this system, the division of power is done between different levels of government-central, provincial and local level.

 

Question 7. What is meant by majoritarianism?

 

 Answer- The system in which the majority community living in the country rules as per their wish and for this they ignore the needs or wishes of the minority community is called majoritarianism.

 

Question 8. Which caste groups make up the population of Sri Lanka?

 

Answer- 74% Sinhalese, 11% Tamil, 8% Christian and 7% Muslim community live in the population of Sri Lanka.

 

Question 9. What do you understand by majoritarianism in Sri Lanka?

 

Answer – The leaders of the Sinhalese community of Sri Lanka wanted to dominate the government on the strength of their majority. Because of this, the democratically elected government took several steps under its majority rule to establish the supremacy of the Sinhalese community. 

 

Question 10. From which communities are the President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the Parliament elected in Lebanon?

 

Answer- In Lebanon, the President should be a Christian Catholic. Only a Sunni Muslim can be the Prime Minister. The post of Deputy Prime Minister has been fixed for an Orthodox Christian and the post of Speaker of the Parliament for a Shia Muslim.

 

Question 11. What is meant by a system of checks and balances?

 

Answer- Such a democratic system in which the judiciary is appointed by the executive, but the judiciary only controls the executive and the laws made by the legislature. This system is also called the system of checks and balances.

 

Question 12. What is meant by community government?

 

Answer- A government that is elected by a community. Dutch, French and German communities in Belgium elect this government, regardless of where they live. This government has the right to decide on issues like culture, education and language.

 

Question 13. What is meant by rational?

 

Answer- Such a decision in which the decision is taken after calculating profit and loss on the basis of discretion is called rational. 

 

Question 14. What is meant by power sharing?

 

Answer- The distribution of the power to rule in a country among different communities, sections or people of the society is called power sharing.

 

 Question 15. What is meant by ethnic?

 

Answer- Such a social division in which each group considers its own culture as separate, that is, it is a social division based on shared culture.

 

Question 16. What is meant by civil war?

 

Answer- In a country where violent fighting between anti-government groups takes such a form that it looks like a war, then it is called a civil war.

 

Question 17. Name two neighboring countries of India.

 

Answer- Nepal and Bhutan are two neighboring countries of India. Apart from this, there are China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.