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Law

Rights, rules, and the documents that carry them.

The StandardGL-00000

The Eight Laws

How every card in this set was made

Eight tests every card in this set has to pass before it can be printed.

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Money SenseGL-00013

Taxation

The membership fee for everything shared

A share of what people earn and spend, collected to pay for shared things.

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Consumer Rights

What the law says when a product fails

The protections a buyer is owed by law when something goes wrong.

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DigiLocker

The filing cabinet that weighs nothing

A government service holding official documents in digital form.

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The Constitution

India's operating system

The document setting out how India is governed and what it may not do.

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Fundamental Rights

Six categories of freedom

Six protections the Constitution guarantees to every citizen.

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Fundamental Duties

The other side of rights

Eleven responsibilities the Constitution asks of every citizen.

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How a Law Gets Made

A bill's long walk

The path an idea travels before it becomes binding on everyone.

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The Panchayat

Democracy at the doorstep

The elected village council, the smallest unit of government in India.

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RTI

Three letters, total transparency

A law letting any citizen ask a public body what it did and why.

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The FIR

Your first step in the legal system

The written report that opens a police investigation.

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PIL

When one person moves the court for millions

A court case brought on behalf of people who cannot bring it themselves.

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Civic Sense

The invisible contract

The small courtesies a shared space depends on but no law requires.

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The Election

The largest exercise in democracy on Earth

The process by which citizens choose who governs them.

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Courts and Contracts

What makes a stranger safe to deal with

The machinery that makes a promise enforceable by someone else.

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The PAN

Ten characters that follow your money

The permanent number tying every financial record to one person.

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The PaperworkGL-00131

The Voter Roll

The vote is not automatic at eighteen

The list you have to be on before anyone will let you vote.

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The Passport

A request from your country to another

The document that asks other states to let you pass, and take you back.

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The PaperworkGL-00133

The Visa

Permission asked before you arrive

A country's advance decision about whether you may enter, and why.

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The PaperworkGL-00134

Studying Abroad

The paperwork starts two years early

The sequence a student has to finish to study in another country.

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KYC

Why every account asks the same things

The identity check an institution must run before it holds your money.

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The Land Record

Registered is not the same as owned

The state's record of who holds a piece of land, and what it misses.

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The Nominee

One line that saves a family months

The person an institution may hand your holdings to when you die.

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The Will

Silence has a default, and it may not be yours

The document deciding who gets what, once you cannot say so yourself.

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The PaperworkGL-00139

The Agreement

Eleven months, and the reason for it

The written terms of a deal, and the formalities that make them stick.

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The PaperworkGL-00140

The Deal

Know your walk-away before you talk

The zone between what each side will accept, and how to find it.

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The Complaint Ladder

Every industry has somebody above it

The order of escalation when a company will not fix its own mistake.

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The Certificate

Small papers that unlock large doors

The state-issued records that prove a plain fact about your life.

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Your Health Record

The doctor's memory is not yours

The file of your own medical history, and who is actually keeping it.

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