Political Science · Political Institutions in India
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
Who said that federalism requires people 'who desire union and must not desire unity'?
AJames Bryce
BA.V. Dicey ✓ Correct
CK.C. Wheare
DH. Finer
Correct answer: (B) A.V. Dicey — A.V. Dicey said that federalism requires people who desire union but do not desire unity, so he is the answer.
Explanation
★A.V. Dicey said that federalism requires people who desire union but do not desire unity, so he is the answer.
★He set two conditions for a federal state: a common sense of nationality among the people and a distinct desire to remain in separate units.
★He also laid down three attributes of a developed federal system: distribution of powers, supremacy of the Constitution, and authority of the judiciary as its interpreter.
★His ideas are set out in his influential work, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).
★Federalism thus balances the wish to be united with the wish to retain separate identities.
★James Bryce and K.C. Wheare are other major writers on federalism, but the quoted phrase is Dicey's.
★For NET, associate the union without unity formulation with A.V. Dicey.
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