Question

What is described as the active role of the judiciary in upholding the rights of citizens and preserving the constitutional and legal system?

• A. Judicial Review
• B. Public Interest Litigation
• C. Constitutional Interpretation
• D. Judicial Activism

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Judicial Activism

Judicial activism

• The judiciary plays an important role in upholding and promoting the rights of citizens in a country.

• The active role of the judiciary in upholding the rights of citizens and preserving the constitutional and legal system of the country is known as judicial activism.

• This entails, sometimes overstepping into the territories of the executive.

• Judicial review (power of the judiciary to interpret the constitution and to declare any such law or order of the legislature and executive void, if it finds them in conflict with the Constitution)
  

• PIL (The person filing the petition must not have any personal interest in the litigation, this petition is accepted by the court only if there is an interest of large public involved; the aggrieved party does not file the petition).
  

• Constitutional interpretation