THE QUESTIONNAIRE ISSUED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL ADVISER by Sir B N Rau
THE QUESTIONNAIRE ISSUED
BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL ADVISER by Sir B N Rau – MARCH 17, 1947
QUESTIONNAIRE A : HEAD OF THE INDIAN UNION
1. What should be the designation of the Head
of the Indian Union?
2. How should be chosen?
3. What should be his term of office?
4. Should he be eligible
for re-election?
5. Should the office
rotate among the different committees in turn? If so, how?
6. Assuming that the
Indian Union is to have a President as its Head, should there be a
Vice-President or Vice-Presidents?
7. What should be the term
of office of Vice-President?
8. What should be the
functions of the President?
9. What should be the
functions of the Vice-President?
10. Should the President be liable to be
removed? If so, in what manner?
11. How is a temporary vacancy in the office
of the President to be filled?
QUESTIONNAIRE B : EXECUTIVE
12. What should be the
nature and type of the Union Executive? Should it be of the British Type
(Parliamentary) or the American type (Non-Parliamentary) of the Swiss type
(mixed) or any other type.
13. If Parliamentary, should there be any special
provision to secure a stable Executive?
14. What should be the composition of the
Executive? What should be the maximum, if any, the number of Ministers?
15. Should provision be made to secure
representation of different communities on the Executive? If so, how?
16. How should joint responsibility or
co-ordination be secured?
17. How should the members of the Executive be
chosen?
18. What provisions
should be made for the removal of the Executive?
19. What should be the nature of relations
between the Head of the Union and the Executive?
QUESTIONNAIRE C : LEGISLATURE
20. Should the Union Legislature have a single
Chamber or two Chambers?
21. What provisions
should be made for the adequate representation of different communities and
interests?
22. What should be the term of the Union
Legislature?
QUESTIONNAIRE D :
JUDICIARY
23. Should there be a
separate chain of courts to administer Union Laws?
QUESTIONNAIRE E : AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION
24. What provisions should
be made regarding amendments to the Constitution
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