Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the code given below: List I A) Curtailment of the power of judicial review B) Abolition of Right to property as a fundamental right C) Lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 D) Addition of the word secular in the preamble List II 1) 61st Amendment 2) 42nd Amendment 3) 38th Amendment 4) 44th Amendment

The correct answer is C. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2.

The core idea is that each amendment is tied to one specific change in the Constitution. Match them one by one:

• A) Curtailment of judicial review: 38th Amendment (1975). It made the President's or Governor's satisfaction for emergency proclamations (Articles 123, 213, 352) non-justiciable. The 42nd Amendment (1976) also cut into judicial review, but it is needed for D here, and each amendment appears only once in List II.
• B) Abolition of right to property as a Fundamental Right: 44th Amendment (1978). It deleted Article 19(1)(f) and created Article 300A, a constitutional (legal) right.
• C) Voting age lowered from 21 to 18: 61st Amendment (1988). It amended Article 326. The change applied from the 1989 Lok Sabha elections onwards.
• D) Addition of 'secular' to the Preamble: 42nd Amendment (1976), along with 'socialist' and 'integrity'.

For Mains, the 42nd Amendment is often discussed as the high-water mark of Parliament's amending power, and the Minerva Mills case (1980) reversed much of it. Keep the amendment-to-subject mapping sharp.

Trap: Aspirants assign the 42nd Amendment to judicial review because it is the most famous example, then get stuck. Check the whole matching for a one-to-one fit before you commit.