Our Constitution — Part 2: Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties: visual lesson, ICSE Class 9 History & Civics (H.C.G. Paper 1)

Lesson

Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties

Part 2 — the rights the Constitution guarantees, how they are enforced, and the duties that go with them.

In this lesson you will

Part 2 at a glance

Concept

A Fundamental Right is guaranteed by the Constitution itself and is justiciable: a court can enforce it.

Table comparing a Fundamental Right with an ordinary legal right by source, enforcement and how it can be changed
	Fundamental Right	Ordinary legal right
Source	Guaranteed by the Constitution	Created by a law of the legislature
Enforcement	Directly in the Supreme Court or a High Court	Through ordinary courts under that law
Change	Only by constitutional amendment	By ordinary law

Diagram

The six categories of Fundamental Rights (as of 2024).

There are 6 categories as of 2024.