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.…
When the Indian Constitution was adopted, the States of the Indian Union were classified into Part A, Part B, and Part C States. Delhi was a Part C State and…
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in one of his seminal speeches before the Constituent Assembly explained the dual polity federal model established under the Constitution: “Dual Polity under the proposed Constitution will…
Civil services form an integral part of modern government. Professor Herman Finer, in his classic work titled “The Theory and Practice of Modern Governance”, states that “the function of civil…
Despite the centrality of the States to the Constitution and the structure of governance that it envisages, Union Territories (which are administered by the Union Government) exist within the constitutional…
The scope of Article 3 Article 2 of the Constitution provides that Parliament may admit new States into the Union or establish new States: “2. Admission or establishment of new…
Democracy and federalism are basic features of the Constitution. The term ‘federal’ is used to indicate the division of powers between the Union or Central Government and the State Governments.…
