“Constitutional culture” is inherent in the concepts where words are transformed into concrete consequences. It is an interlocking system of practices, institutional arrangements, norms and habits of thought that determine…
In S.R. Chaudhuri v. State of Punjab and others, a three-Judge Bench has opined that constitutional provisions are required to be understood and interpreted with an object-oriented approach and a…
The task of interpreting an instrument as dynamic as the Constitution assumes great import in a democracy. The Constitutional Courts are entrusted with the critical task of expounding the provisions…
Democracy is a form of government where the people rule. Aristotle viewed democracy as a form of government in which the supreme powers are in the hands of freemen and…
In the Constituent Assembly Debates, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar spoke thus on collective responsibility: ¬ “I want to tell my friend Prof. K.T. Shah that his amendment would be absolutely fatal…
The concept of constitutional governance in a body polity like ours, where the Constitution is the supreme fundamental law, is neither hypothetical nor an abstraction but is real, concrete and…
Constitutional morality in its strictest sense of the term implies strict and complete adherence to the constitutional principles as enshrined in various segments of the document. When a country is…
Representative Governance in a Republican form of democracy is a kind of democratic setup wherein the people of a nation elect and choose their law-making representatives. The representatives so elected…
Remission, in the legal context, doesn't equate to absolution. It doesn't erase the committed offense or the resulting conviction; rather, it meticulously influences the execution of the imposed sentence.
Article 308 provides the definition of ‘State’ for Part XIV of the Constitution. Article 308 as it stood prior to the Constitution (Seventh amendment) Act 1956 provides as follows: “308.…
