Political Science · Indian Polity
Given below are an Assertion and a Reason. Choose the correct option.
Assertion (A): In the first twenty years of the Indian Republic, the judiciary adopted a legalistic approach to interpreting laws framed by the legislatures
Reason (R): The Indian judiciary placed Fundamental Rights above the Directive Principles simply on the basis of how they were placed and treated in the Constitution
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true but R is Not the correct explanation of A
CA is true but R is false
DA is false but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion.
Explanation
★Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion.
★In the early decades the judiciary read laws in a literal, legalistic way.
★It gave fundamental rights primacy over the directive principles in cases of conflict.
★This was based on the way the Constitution placed and worded the two parts.
★Fundamental rights were justiciable, while the directive principles were not enforceable.
★So the legalistic reading led the court to rank rights above the directives.
★The reason therefore explains the legalistic approach of the assertion.
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