The Kesavananda Bharati case was a landmark Supreme Court decision in India. It established the Basic Structure Doctrine. This doctrine asserts that certain fundamental features of the Constitution cannot be altered or destroyed. The verdict emphasised the supremacy of the Constitution. It reinforced the balance of power between the legislature and judiciary. This ruling has had a lasting impact on Indian constitutional law.
Judicial review is the power of the judiciary to declare the laws of the legislature and the orders of the executive unconstitutional if it feels that such laws/orders...
The role of the Supreme Court as the custodian of (a) the federal scheme as visualized by the framers of the Constitution, (b) the Constitution itself, (c) the...
Article 368 of the Constitution provides for the power of the Parliament as also the method of amending the Constitution. Unless otherwise provided and also if the amending...
In the light of Article 13 which forbids the State (the legislatures making laws and the executives, issuing ordinances) to make laws in contravention of Part III and...
Every written constitution is the result of certain times. As times change, new trends changing situations, problems arise, which bring to forth issues which necessitate newer solutions and...
The concept of 'basic structure' in the Indian Constitution has its roots embedded in a historic judgement from 1973, the case of Kesavananda Bharati vs State of Kerala....
