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Examine the role of Supreme Court as the final interpreter of the Indian Constitution.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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As the Constitution is the fundamental law, every statute and executive act must conform to it, and some organ must settle what it means; India gives that word to the Supreme Court. Yet, as US Justice Robert H. Jackson observed, such a court is "not final because we are infallible, but ... infallible only because…

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  • The constitutional basis of finality
  • How it interprets
  • Limits on finality
  • Constitutional or judicial supremacy?
  • Conclusion
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