A law is a rule plus force
Enforcement is part of it.
A law is a general rule made by the government, applying to everybody, with a consequence if broken and the power to enforce it.
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The Role of the Judiciary · Class 8 Social Science · Exploring Society
English 4 topics 140 leveled MCQs 68 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Justice is a standard
Not a rule. A measure.
Justice is what laws are measured against, which is why a legal rule can still fail it.
The Preamble's promise
Three kinds at once.
Our Constitution promises every citizen social, economic and political justice, not a fair vote alone.
Five doors, not one ladder
Only one involves climbing.
A matter can reach the Supreme Court five different ways, and appeal is only one of them.
It began with the Constitution
Same day, 1950.
The Supreme Court came into existence on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution took effect.
Article 124
The establishing article.
Article 124 provides for the Supreme Court and for the appointment of its judges by the President.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
Law, Justice and the Gap Between Them
Why a legal rule can still be unjust, what the two aspects of justice ask, and why the judiciary has to be independent of the government it judges.
- A law is a general rule made by the government, binding on all, with a consequence for breach and the power of enforcement behind it.
- Justice is the standard laws are measured against, which is why a lawful rule can still be unjust.
- The Preamble promises all citizens social, economic and political justice.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
The Supreme Court and Its Five Doors
The five separate ways a matter reaches the highest court, how public interest litigation widened one of them, and why a single judgment binds every court.
- The Supreme Court is the highest court of law in India and came into existence on 26 January 1950, with Article 124 providing for it.
- It is seated in New Delhi, has thirty-three judges besides the Chief Justice of India, and all are appointed by the President.
- A judge must be an Indian citizen and either a High Court judge of five years, an advocate of ten, or a distinguished jurist; retirement is…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
High Courts, District Courts and Tribunals
Why twenty-eight States have twenty-five High Courts, what a High Court's three powers are, and why a body with one subject can beat a court with every subject.
- Article 214 provides for a High Court in each State, satisfied by twenty-five courts for twenty-eight States, because some share one.
- A High Court has a Chief Justice and other judges, whose number varies by State; judges retire at sixty-two.
- The President appoints them after consulting the Chief Justice of India, the Governor, and that court's Chief Justice.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Settling Disputes Beyond the Courtroom
Four routes out of a quarrel and who decides in each, three criminal codes replaced after more than a century, and a court that reports on itself.
- Courts encourage litigants to use arbitration, mediation or conciliation, negotiation and Lok Adalats, which reduces the burden on the judic…
- An arbitrator may be a retired judge, or a practising lawyer, or an expert in the subject, and must act fairly and impartially while hearing…
- An arbitrator's decision is final, binds both parties and a court can enforce it; the governing Act dates from 1996.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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140 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A law differs from a custom chiefly because a law
Beginner
A is older than the whole community that follows it
B carries a consequence the state can enforce
C is written down in some book or other
D applies to some people and not to others
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carries a consequence the state can enforce
Enforcement is part of the definition.
A citizen says the Preamble's promise of justice is really a promise about elections and nothing more. Which part of the promise shows otherwise?
Intermediate
A that the courts were founded at the same moment
B that the promise is made to all citizens equally
C that social and economic justice are promised too
D that the Preamble comes before the articles do
Show answer & explanation
that social and economic justice are promised too
Three kinds, not one.
Laws barring people of colour from fountains, pools and restaurants, lawful until the 1960s, were in force in
Beginner
A the princely states of old India
B the whole of South Africa
C several of the British colonies
D parts of the United States
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parts of the United States
Repealed there in the 1960s.
A student argues that whatever is legal must be just. The clearest answer from this topic is that
Intermediate
A legality and justice always point the same way
B unjust laws have existed and had to be repealed
C only a court can ever decide whether a law is just
D justice is a matter of opinion in every society
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unjust laws have existed and had to be repealed
Two examples, both repealed.
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