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Comment on Doctrine of Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution. (150 words)

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  • 12 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The doctrine of basic structure holds that Parliament's power under Article 368 extends to every provision but not to destroying the Constitution's essential identity. Foreshadowed by Dietrich Conrad's 1965 lecture on implied limits and by Justice J. R. Mudholkar in Sajjan Singh (1965), it was laid down in Kesavananda Bharati (1973) by 7:6.

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