Constitution First Amendment Act, 1951

The First Amendment was passed in 1951 by the Provisional Parliament, which was elected on a limited franchise. The Statement of Reasons (SOR) relating to the First Amendment said: “Challenges to agrarian laws or laws relating to land reform were ..

National Commission for Minorities: Issue of Constitutional Status

National Commission for Minorities has been in existence for 38 years and there were recent debates on scrapping this body. Important Facts Officially, there are 6 minorities in India viz. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. The Union Government ..

Other Salient Features of the Constitution

[no_toc] Integrated and Independent Judiciary The judicial system prevalent under constitutional arrangement in India is integrated and independent. In the integrated system the Supreme Court of India stands at the apex of the judicial system in the country. Below it, ..

Secularism in India

India is a multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-racial, and multi-cultural society. Religious minorities constitute roughly 20% of India’s population, out of which Muslims account for 14.2%. No society can prosper or be at peace if its 20% of the population feels threatened, ..

Salient Features of Indian Constitution: Parliamentary System

India has a parliamentary form of Government. The parliamentary system means that the ministers get their legitimacy from Parliament. Part V of the Constitution trifurcates the State into three equal constituents’ viz. Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. Legislature is made of ..

Constitutional, Judicial and Parliamentary Supremacy in India

The first and foremost feature of Indian Sovereignty is that Constitution is the supreme law of the land; and all state organs including parliament, judiciary, states etc. are bound by it. They must act within the limits laid down by ..

Indian Constitution: Unique blending of federal and unitary features

Indian Constitution is a unique blending of both federal and unitary features. Federal features present in the Constitutions are: Two governments Division of powers between the union and its constituents Written constitution Supremacy of the Constitution Partial Rigidity of the ..

Indian Constitution: Flexible or Rigid or a mixture of both

Based upon the provisions made for its amendment, a constitution can be flexible or rigid or a mixture of both. A flexible constitution can be amended by ordinary law making exercise while a rigid constitution can be amended by a ..

Constitution of India and Plagiarism debate

The Constitution of India is a salubrious integration of useful and progressive features drawn from different Constitutions of the world. Although most of the Constitution is almost a reproduction of the Government of India Act, 1935, certain features were also ..

Why India has a mammoth size constitution?

Constitution of India is the longest written constitution of any sovereign state in the world, and has continued to grow till date. Originally, it had 395 articles divided into 22 parts and eight schedules. The numbering still remains the same but with amendments; either old articles or ..