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Constitution 11th Amendment Act, 1961

Article 66(1) requires the members of the two Houses of Parliament to assemble at a joint sitting for the election of the Vice President. This provision of the...

September 12, 2016

Constitution 10th Amendment Act, 1961

People of free Dadra and Nagar Haveli adopted a resolution on 12 June 1961 for integration of their territories with the Union of India. Subsequently, these areas were...

September 12, 2016

Constitution 7th Amendment Act, 1956

The 7th Amendment of Indian Constitution was needed to implement the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission regarding the reorganization of the states on a linguistic basis.  It...

September 12, 2016

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...

September 12, 2016

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...

September 9, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016

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...

September 5, 2016