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Explain the concept of Judicial activism, and examine its impact on the relationship between executive and judiciary in India.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Principal Organs of Government

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Judicial activism, a label first used by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in a 1947 Fortune essay on the Roosevelt Court, describes a court that goes beyond declaring an act valid or void and prescribes what the other organs must do, then supervises them while they do it. In India its chief target has been the executive,…

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