In this section you have TWO short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.
Passage-II
The ‘law’ is an enterprise that seeks to rule us all from cradle to the grave, whether as constitution confronting custom, or as custom confronting constitution, and often indeed as the diverse combinatory prowess of both. The very notion of enterprise suggests risk-taking i.e., risk as a site for both opportunity as well as failure for regulation or felicitation of approved social conduct. At the same moment, this coupling of the constitutional and custom is at the outset designed to pluralise the notion of legal literacy, a message yet to be fully constructed and conveyed co-equally to those who govern us and those who would resist domination. As citizens, we are supposed to know the law made by the state, whether we intend to obey it or break it. As members of cultural and religious communities, we also need to know the norms that define our membership of these collectives. Often, our identity and obligations as members of a political society and of diverse memberships within cultural and religious communities constitute spheres of peaceful coexistence. Often, too these collide. To decide what obligations ought to have precedence, each one of us in collision situations has to know a great deal about the law of the state and that constituting community and identity other than the political. Literacy in state law is important but never enough for an understanding of multiple sources of obligations that constantly press upon us. This invites engagement with many difficult questions including what we may want to mean by literacy, law, domination, and resistance. Further, the question always is: how far do resources of legal literacy endow us with resources of justice for all and care of self and care for others?
According to the author, legal literacy
- Aneeds to be interpreted and understood in consonance with elements of social custom and justice
- Bneeds to be interpreted and understood in consonance with elements of economic and psychological factors and law
- Cneeds to be interpreted and understood in terms of unjust existence of human being and justice
- Dneeds to be interpreted and understood in consonance with elements of environmental conservation and law
Explanation
The question asks how legal literacy should be understood. The passage discusses the coupling of constitutional law and custom, designed to 'pluralise the notion of legal literacy'. It emphasizes understanding law in relation to social norms and justice. Option (a) 'in consonance with elements of social custom and justice' captures this: legal literacy requires coordinating state law with cultural norms toward justice. Options (b), (c), (d) mention economic, environmental, or 'unjust existence' elements not in the passage. The text specifically links legal literacy to social custom and justice. Therefore option A is correct. Cross-checked with Oswaal CDS Yearwise Solved Papers.