Where rules come from
Why anything is needed.
People have lived in communities for a very long time. When many people live together, disagreements arise and disorder can follow. Rules become necessary, and their purpose is to keep order and harmony.
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Grassroots Democracy — Part 1: Governance · Class 6 Social Science · Exploring Society
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Order and harmony
Two words, not one.
Order is things running as they should. Harmony is people getting along while they do. Rules aim at both of these, which is why the chapter names them separately rather than treating them as one.
Rules you already keep
You are already inside several.
There are simple rules at home you are expected to keep. Your school has rules, some for students and some for teachers. Examinations have rules. Drivers obey traffic rules. Every kind of job has rules set by the employer.
Three organs
Not one body, but three.
A government is not a single body doing a single job. It works through three branches, which the chapter calls organs. The word is well chosen: distinct parts, each doing what the others cannot, inside one living thing.
The legislature
The verb is inside the name.
The legislature makes new laws, which is what legislating means. It does not only add. Sometimes it also updates laws already in force, or removes them altogether.
Who makes the laws
Not one official. Not one person.
The chapter is specific about who legislates. The work falls to an assembly made up of the people's representatives. That phrase returns in the last topic of this chapter, where it matters a great deal.
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1
Rules, Governance and Government
Rules are everywhere, and without them society could not work at all. Three words do the heavy lifting here: governance, government and law.
- People have lived in communities for a very long time.
- Where many people live together there can be disagreement and disorder, so rules become necessary.
- Rules keep order and harmony in a society.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
The Three Organs of Government
A government is not one thing. It has three organs, each with its own work, and good governance depends on keeping them apart.
- A government works through three branches, called organs.
- The legislature makes new laws, and sometimes updates or removes existing ones.
- Law-making falls to an assembly made up of the people's representatives.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
The Three Levels of Government
The same government is cut a second way: local, state and national. Two everyday analogies show why three tiers are needed.
- Any democratic government works at more than one level.
- In many countries, India included, it works at three levels or tiers.
- The three are local, state or regional, and national.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Who Does What: Centre and State
The three organs, set out at two levels. Which court, which assembly, which head, and which subjects belong to the Centre and which to a State.
- The judiciary has the Supreme Court of India for the whole country and a High Court at the State level.
- The national legislature has two houses, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, which frame national laws.
- A State normally has one assembly, the Vidhan Sabha, though a few States have two.
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5
Democracy, and Its Grassroots
Rule of the people, in a country where the people cannot all rule at once. Representatives, a class monitor, 970 million voters and two kinds of democracy.
- Democracy is the form of governance that most countries in the world have taken up.
- The word comes from the Greek dēmos, people, and kratos, rule or power.
- So democracy literally means the rule of the people.
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Rules become necessary when many people live together because:
Beginner
A somebody must be in charge of everybody else
B communities are a recent development
C disagreements arise and disorder can follow
D people cannot decide anything on their own
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disagreements arise and disorder can follow
Their purpose is to keep order and harmony, not to punish.
Rules are meant to keep order and ____ in a society.
Beginner
A silence
B wealth
C obedience
D harmony
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harmony
Order is matters running as they should; the other word is about people getting along.
Which of these is NOT given in the chapter as a place where rules apply?
Intermediate
A a private conversation
B an examination hall
C a road with traffic
D a place of work
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a private conversation
Home, school, examinations, roads and jobs are the examples listed.
A factory owner promises a weekly holiday and then withdraws it. What does the chapter say about this?
Advanced
A an employer may change any promise at will
B employers must also keep the rules committed to employees
C only written rules bind an employer
D employees alone are bound by workplace rules
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employers must also keep the rules committed to employees
Rules are not simply handed down from the powerful to everybody else.
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