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Discuss the efficacy of judicial review in India.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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Judicial review is the power of the higher courts to test legislative, executive and administrative action, and in India even constitutional amendments, against the Constitution, and to declare invalid what fails. It is distinct from judicial activism, which describes how expansively that power is used. The phrase appears nowhere in the text, yet review is…

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