TNPSC Constitution of India: Borrowed Features of Constitution

BORROWED FEATURES OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

FROM UNITED KINGDOM (UK)

• President (Nominal Head
• Cabinet System of Ministers
• Post of Prime Minister
• Parliamentary Type of Government
• Bicameral Parliament
• Lower house more Powerful
• Council of Ministers responsible to Lower House
• Speaker in the Lok Sabha
• Single Citizenship

FROM USA

• Written Constitution
• Executive State Known as President and his being the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
• The Vice President Ex-Officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha
• Fundamental Rights
• Supreme Court
• Provision of States
• Independence of Judiciary and Judicial Review
• The Preamble
• The Removal of Supreme Court and high Court Judges

FROM RUSSIA (USSR)

• Fundamental Duties
• Five Year Plan

FROM AUSTRALIA

• Concurrent List
• Language of the Preamble
• Provisions Regarding Trade, Commerce and Intercourse

FROM JAPAN

• Law of which the supreme Court Function

FROM GERMANY (WEIMAR CONSTITUTION)

• Suspension of Fundamental Rights during the Emergency Period

FROM SOUTH AFRICA

• Procedure of Constitutional Amendments

FROM CANADA

• Scheme of federation with a strong center
• Distribution of Powers between Center and the States and Placing.
• Residuary Powers with the center

FROM IRELAND

• Concept of directive Principles of State Policy
• (Ireland Borrowed it  from Spain)
• Method of Election of the President
• Nomination of members in the Rajya Sabha by the President