CSE · GS-2Official PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q3Polity · Comparing Constitutions · 10 marks · 150 words
English
Compare and contrast the President’s power to pardon in India and in the USA. Are there any limits to it in both the countries? What are ‘preemptive pardons’?
हिन्दी
भारत और संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में क्षमा करने की राष्ट्रपति की शक्ति की तुलना कीजिए तथा विषमताओं को स्पष्ट कीजिए। क्या दोनों देशों में इसकी कोई सीमाएँ हैं? ‘अग्रिम माफी’ क्या होती है?
Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2025 (English and Hindi). Source
Syllabus
Polity · Comparing Constitutions
Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries.
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