FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17 UNDER
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1987
Constitutional Law
Maximum Marks: 100 Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Note: Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks.
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“Conventions are intended to secure the ultimate supremacy of the electorate as the true political sovereign of the state.” Elaborate and discuss the above statement with reference to at least five most important constitutional conventions in Britain.
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Critically analyse the three-fold exposition of Rule of Law by Dicey.
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial,in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronourced by the very definition of tyranny.” The Federalist 1788.
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Critically explain the doctrine of Democratic Centralism as operative in the USSR.
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“The Constitution of the Fifth Republic maintains the political irresponsibility of the President but at the same time gives him personal
powers that he can exercise solely at his discretion.” Discuss the above statement with reference to the provisions of the French Constitution. -
Give a detailed analysis of relations between the Union and the States in India.
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Critically examine the powers and position of the President of Pakistan in the aftermath of Eighth Amendment (1985) in the constitution of Pakistan.
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Analyse the Fundamental Rights stated in the Constitution (1973) of Pakistan. What guarantees have seen provided against their violation and under what circumstances they can be suspended?