NCERT Book Class 10 Social Science (Civics) Chapter 1 Power-sharing

Power-sharing

Overview

Chapter I
With this chapter, we resume the tour of democracy that we started last
year. We noted last year that in a democracy all power does not rest
with any one organ of the government. An intelligent sharing of power
among legislature, executive and judiciary is very important to the design
of a democracy. In this and the next two chapters, we carry this idea of
power-sharing forward. We start with two stories from Belgium and Sri
Lanka. Both these stories are about how democracies handle demands for
power-sharing. The stories yield some general conclusions about the need
for power-sharing in democracy. This allows us to discuss various forms
of power-sharing that will be taken up in the following two chapters.

Po w e r - sh a r i n g

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