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Take one ordinary event and follow it all the way through: a state legislature passes a bill on a subject that the Centre also legislates on. That single journey touches almost every article this chapter is made of — who signs it, who can refuse, who overrules whom, and what happens when two laws say opposite things.
It is worth doing because the state half of the Constitution is where students lose easy marks. Everyone revises the President and Parliament. Far fewer can say what the Governor may do that the President may not, or which house of a state legislature can be abolished.
And the design is deliberately not a copy of the Centre. The Governor is appointed, not elected. Some states have two houses and most have one. The Union can legislate on a State List subject in defined situations, but a state can never legislate on the Union List. Hold on to those three asymmetries and the rest follows.
1. The Governor of a State holds office during the pleasure of:
2. The minimum age prescribed for appointment as Governor of a State is:
3. Under the 91st Constitutional Amendment, the total number of ministers in a State Council of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, shall not exceed:
4. The power of the Governor to promulgate ordinances when the State Legislature is not in session is given by:
5. Residuary powers of legislation — subjects not listed in any of the three Lists — belong to:
6. If a State law and a Union law on a Concurrent List subject are inconsistent with each other, then ordinarily:
7. Education was transferred from the State List to the Concurrent List by which Constitutional Amendment?
8. The maximum strength of a State Legislative Council is fixed at: