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  2. Parliamentary sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Parliamentary sovereignty, also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy, is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies.

  3. Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The amendment's fifty-nine clauses stripped the Supreme Court of many of its powers and moved the political system toward parliamentary sovereignty. The 43rd and 44th Amendments reversed these changes. [18] Article 74 was amended and it was explicitly stipulated that "the President shall act in accordance with the advice of the Council of ...

  4. Indian Parliamentary Group - Wikipedia

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    The management and control of the affairs of the Group are vested in the Executive Committee. The Speaker, Lok Sabha is the ex-officio President of the Group. A link between the Indian Parliament and its foreign counterparts, the group functions as the National Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and the Main Branch of the ...

  5. Basic structure doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Maintenance of the unity and integrity of India. The sovereignty of the country. Justices Hegde and Mukherjea, in their opinion, provided a separate and shorter list: The sovereignty of India. The democratic character of the polity. The unity of the country. Essential features of individual freedoms. The mandate to build a welfare state.

  6. Politics of India - Wikipedia

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    Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government, although the word is not ...

  7. Amendment of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The framers, instead, adopted a combination of the "theory of fundamental law", which underlies the written Constitution of the United States with the "theory of parliamentary sovereignty" as existing in the United Kingdom. The Constitution of India vests constituent power upon the Parliament subject to the special procedure laid down therein. [1]

  8. List of committees of the Parliament of India - Wikipedia

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    The Parliamentary committees are established to study and deal with various matters that cannot be directly handled by the legislature due to their volume. They also monitor the functioning of the executive branch. [3] The Parliamentary committees are of two kinds – standing or permanent committees and ad hoc committees. The former are ...

  9. Special session of the Parliament of India - Wikipedia

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    A midnight session was convened on 15 August, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of India's independence. Leader of Opposition party Atal Bihari Vajpayee moved the motion to consider the state of Indian democracy and its democratic institutions, economic situation, position of infrastructure and potential in the field of science and technology ...