Correct Answer - Option 1 : Ireland
The Directive Principles of State Policy are guidelines to the central and state governments of India, to be kept in mind while framing laws and policies.
The framers of the constitution borrowed this idea from the Irish Constitution of 1937, which had copied it from the Spanish Constitution.
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The Directive Principles of State Policy are mentioned in Part IV of the constitution from Articles 36 to 51.
- Dr B.R. Ambedkar described these principles as 'novel features' of the Indian Constitution.
- The Directive Principles along with the Fundamental Rights contain the philosophy of the constitution and is the soul of the Constitution.
- In 1919, the Rowlatt Acts gave extensive powers to the British government and police.
- It allowed indefinite arrest and detention of individuals, warrant-less searches and seizures, restrictions on public gatherings, and intensive censorship of media and publications.
- The public opposition to this act eventually led to mass campaigns of non-violent civil disobedience throughout the country demanding guaranteed civil freedoms, and limitations on government power.
- Indians, who were seeking independence and their own government, were particularly influenced by the independence of Ireland and the development of the Irish constitution.
- Also, the directive principles of state policy in the Irish constitution were looked upon by the people of India as an inspiration for independent India's government to comprehensively tackle complex social and economic challenges across a vast, diverse nation and population.
