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Analyse the significance of Article 32 of the Indian Constitution.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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B. R. Ambedkar told the Constituent Assembly (9 December 1948) that without Article 32 the Constitution "would be a nullity"; it was "the very soul of the Constitution and the very heart of it". Its significance lies less in the writs, inherited from English law, than in four linked components — and in how they…

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  • 1. The normative core: a remedy that is itself a right
  • 2. The institutional component: review and entrenchment
  • 3. The creative component: from writs to remedies
  • 4. The limiting component: suspension and self-restraint
  • How the components interact
  • Conclusion
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