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Q.Why is it necessary for a country to have clear demarcation of powers/responsibilities in the constitution? What would happen without it?

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A clear demarcation of powers is necessary because a society cannot even begin to have working rules until it is settled who has the authority to make them — without that, competing claims to authority collide with no way to resolve the conflict.

The chapter explains that even before a group can decide what its rules should say, it first has to decide who gets to decide: you might believe your preferred rule is best, but others will insist theirs is, and this dispute has to be resolved before any actual rule-making can happen. A constitution's second function — specifying decision-making power — answers exactly this question, by identifying a specific body (such as India's Parliament) and specifying how it is organised and what authority it holds. …

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