Give two examples each to support the following conclusions about the Indian Constitution: (a) The Constitution was made by credible leaders who commanded people’s respect. (b) The Constitution has distributed power in such a way as to make it difficult to subvert it. (c) The Constitution is the locus of people’s hopes and aspirations.

(a) The following two factors are responsible:
 The members of Constituent Assembly were elected by indirect election by the members
of Provincial Legislative Assemblies to be established in 1935. Assembly reflected each
of the communities, provinces, princely states through an appropriate formula. Even 28
members belonged to scheduled castes.
 The members of Constituent Assembly went through long debates and discussions for
166 days spread over two years eleven months.
(b) The following two factors can be summed up for the same:
 Our Constitution has made institutional arrangements of government on the basis of
check and balance approach. If one of the institutions goes beyond its limitations, the
other checks it.
 The procedure for amendments is well elaborated for different articles of the
Constitution.
(c) The following factors are responsible for the same because:
 The Constitution has provided some Fundamental Rights along with protected
provisions, tibeb the judiciary has powers to protect them.
 The Constitution of India has incorporated some ‘Directive Principles of State Policy’
which are not justiciable but a moral duty of government. The government has also given
some effects to these in the form of fixed minimum wages, formation of Panchayati Raj
Institutions, employment guarantee scheme and mid-day meal schemes, etc. to be the
hopes and aspirations of the people.