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PROJECT SUBMITTED TOMrs. Shraddha Ra!"# Ma$Ass%s#a&# Pr'()ss'r '( La*+ HNLU.Fa,"# '( C'&s#%#"#%'&a G'/)r&a&,) 0H'&s. I10F)d)ra%s$1SUBMITTED BY2
Abhinav K ShuklaRoll No. 03
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SEMESTER IX, Batch XII
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AC9NOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks to the Almiht! "ho ave me the st#enth to accom$lish the $#o%ect "ith shee# ha#& "o#k an&honest!. This #esea#ch ventu#e has been ma&e $ossible &ue to the ene#ous co'o$e#ation o( va#ious $e#sons. This $#o%ect "oul&n)t have been $ossible "ithout the hel$ o( ou# (acult!
Mrs. Shraddha Ra!"#Ma$+ Fa,"# '( C'&s#%#"#%'&a G'/)r&a&,) 0H'&s. I1
"ho ha& al"a!s been the#e at m! si&e"heneve# I nee&e& some hel$ #ea#&in an! in(o#mation. She has been m! mento# in the t#uest sense o( the te#m. The a&minist#ation has also been kin& enouh to let me use thei# (acilities (o# #esea#ch "o#k. Ithank them (o# this "oul& be #ate(ul to #eceive comments an& suestions (o# (u#the# im$#ovement o( this $#o%ect #e$o#t.Thankin *ou+Abhinav K ShuklaRoll No.03, Semeste# IX,Batch XII.
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- Int#o&uction..................................................03/-b%ectives o( Stu&!..........................................................................013-Resea#ch Metho&olo!............012-Amen&abilit! o( The In&ian onstitution.....................................04'41-5oct#ine o( Basic St#uctu#e.........................................................4'3/4-Basic St#uctu#e6' 7ath to"a#&s #ii&it! o# (le8ibilit!...................9'/9:-7#ovisions (o# ............................................................................../9'31;-onclusion.........................................................................................34 0- Re(e#ences.....................................................................................3;
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INTRODUCTION
““We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ―
“The ideas upon which Constitution is based in one generation may be spurned as old – fashioned in the net”.
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Jennings
The onstitution make#s ave the $o"e# to amen& the onstitution in the han&s o( the7a#liament b! makin it neithe# too #ii& no# too (le8ible "ith a $u#$ose that the 7a#liament"ill amen& it as to co$e u$ "ith the chanin nee&s an& &eman&s o(
"we the people
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. The7a#liament in e8e#cise o( its constituent $o"e# un&e# A#ticle 34; o( the In&ian onstitutioncan amen& an! o( the $#ovisions o( the onstitution an& this $o"e# em$o"e#s the 7a#liamentto amen& even A#ticle 34; itsel(. <o"eve#, the e8tent o( (le8ibilit! emb#ace& b! a onstitution has to be balance& b! a nee& to $#ese#ve its no#mative cha#acte# as a hihe# la" that #est#ains tem$o#a#! $a#liamenta#!ma%o#ities o( the nation. A#ticle 34; o( the onstitution &oes not $#esc#ibe an! e8$#esslimitation u$on the $a#liament)s amen&in $o"e#, ho"eve# the Su$#eme ou#t inKeshavanan&a Bha#ati v. State o( Ke#ala =9:3- &ecla#e& that A#ticle 34; &i& not enable $a#liament to alte# the >Basic St#uctu#e o# ?#ame"o#k) o( the onstitution.The >
#octrine of $asic %tructure&
is a %u&e' ma&e &oct#ine to $ut a limitation on theamen&in $o"e#s o( the 7a#liament so that the
basic structure of the basic law of the
land
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cannot be amen&e& in e8e#cise o( its constituent $o"e# un&e# the onstitution. So the@uestion a#ises, is not the#e an! limitation on the amen&in $o"e#s o( the 7a#liament I( theans"e# o( this @uestion is not in a((i#mative "ith a #eason that the onstitution make#s &i& notinten&e& (o# such limitation othe#"ise the! "oul& have $#ovi&e (o# such limitation in theonstitution, then anothe# @uestion a#ises to "hat e8tent can the 7a#liament amen& the basicla" o( the lan& An&, i( the#e "ill be no limitation on the amen&in $o"e# o( the 7a#liament,a#e the#e not chances that this $o"e# o( amen&ment in the name o(
"constituent power
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can
1 Sir Ivor Jennings, ‘
Some Characteristics of Indian Constitution’
, (1953), p.15.
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