{"id":2188,"date":"2024-04-25T04:41:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T23:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2024-04-25T04:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T23:11:56","slug":"q-a-constitutional-government-by-definition-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-a-constitutional-government-by-definition-is-a","title":{"rendered":"Q. A constitutional government by definition is a"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>government by legislature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>popular government<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>multi-party government<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>limited government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(d) limited government<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-66295f29933ac\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Constitutional government is by definition<strong>\u00a0limited government.\u00a0<\/strong>It means government conducted according\u00a0<strong>to rules and principles<\/strong>, which are binding on all political actors, and which therefore help\u00a0<strong>to constrain the unfettered exercise of power by separating or dividing it.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Constitution seeks<strong>\u00a0to regulate political power<\/strong>. The core element of constitutional government is the existence of a\u00a0<strong>Rule-of-Law<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>set of basic laws<\/strong>\u00a0that bind both public office-holders and all members of a society within a given territory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presently most states avail of a constitution, which\u00a0<strong>directs the organization of the state<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>the relations between the public offices<\/strong>\u00a0within the state, as well the<strong>\u00a0human and civil rights<\/strong>\u00a0of the individual.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Constitutional government is defined by the existence of a constitution\u2014which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental Law of the polity\u2014that effectively controls the exercise of political power.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The essence of constitutionalism is the\u00a0<strong>control of power by its distribution among several state organs or offices<\/strong>\u00a0in such a way that they are each subjected to reciprocal controls and forced to cooperate in formulating the will of the state.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Constitutional government in essence is about\u00a0<strong>constitutionalism<\/strong>\u00a0which is about limited government. In many cases, constitutional government is used interchangeably with \u201cconstitutionally limited government\u201d or limited government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(d) limited government Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[53],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-53"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":53,"label":"2020"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}