UPSC General Studies Solved Paper - General Studies-2017

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    Which one of the following statements is correct?

    A)  Right are claims of the State against the citizens.

    B)  Rights are privileges which are incorporated in the Constitution of a State.

    C)  Rights are claims of the citizens against the State.

    D)  Rights are privileges of a few citizens against the many.

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Exp. [c] Rights are claims of citizen of India against the States. They prevent the establishment of an authoritarian and despotic rule in the country, and protect the liberties and freedoms of the people against the invasion by the State. They operate as limitations on the tyranny of the executive and arbitrary laws of the legislature. In short, they aim at establishing 'a government of laws and not of men'.


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