Question 1 - Assertion Reasoning - Chapter 2 Class 9 Political Science - Constitutional Design - Political Science

In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): All countries that have constitutions are not necessarily democratic.

Reason (R): But all countries that are democratic will have constitutions.

Options:

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

(c) A is correct but R is wrong.

(d) A is wrong but R is correct.

Answer

So the correct answer is (b)-Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Explanation

• Assertion (A): All countries that have constitutions are not necessarily democracies . Saudi Arabia is an example of one such country that is non-democratic but still has a constitution. Thus, assertion (A) is true .
• Reasoning (R): But all democratic countries will have constitutions since the Americans adopted a constitution after the war of independence against Great Britain. The French People approved a democratic constitution after the revolution. Since then it has become a common practice in all democracies to have a written constitution. Thus, the reasoning (R) is true.
• Reasoning (R) is a correct statement but it’s not explaining the reason why All countries that have constitutions are not necessarily democracies. Thus, Reasoning (r) is not a correct explanation of Assertion (a).

Thus,

• Assertion is true
• Reasoning is true
• But Reasoning (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).

So, the correct answer is (b) .