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Differentiate parliamentary supremacy from parliamentary sovereignty. Would you consider the Indian Parliament as a Sovereign Parliament, Examine.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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A. V. Dicey, in Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885), defined parliamentary sovereignty as Parliament's right to make or unmake any law whatever, with no person or body entitled to override or set aside its legislation. British writers often use "supremacy" for the same idea, but in constitutional analysis the…

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  • Sovereignty and supremacy distinguished
  • Why the Indian Parliament is not sovereign
  • Why it is nonetheless supreme
  • An assessment
  • Conclusion
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