Basic Structure

4 notes tagged Basic Structure.

• Polity

  The Preamble and Making of India's Constitution

  The Constituent Assembly's key figures, the Objectives Resolution, what each word in the Preamble means, and why Kesavananda overturned Berubari on it.

• Polity

  Basic Structure of the Constitution Doctrine

  How Kesavananda Bharati, Indira Gandhi v Raj Narain, Minerva Mills and Waman Rao built a judge-made limit on Parliament's amending power, and what it covers.

• Polity

  Is India Federal, Quasi-Federal, or Neither?

  The classical test for a federation, exactly which parts of it India satisfies, and how the Supreme Court's own description has shifted over decades.

• Polity

  Landmark Judgements and Their Impact: A Chronological Index

  A chronological map of the roughly two dozen landmark cases already covered in depth across this site's own Polity notes, so a single case is never studied in isolation from its real successors and precedents.