Constitutional Law II
57 Constitutional Cases in Brief: Quick Notes
Issue: Can the government choose judges even when the Chief Justice disagrees?
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57 Landmark Constitutional Cases: Complete Notes
About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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Constitution I One Shot
Definition: Constitutionalism is a system that gives legitimacy to a democratic government.
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Ram Jawaya Kapur
Supreme Court of India · 1955
The Supreme Court held that the executive power of a State is residuary and coextensive with the legislative power, so the government can act, including carrying on a trade like publishing school textbooks, without a specific law, as long as it does not violate anyone's fundamental rights or any law. The publishers' petition under Article 32 failed because they had no fundamental right to have their books prescribed in schools. The case is a leading authority on the nature of executive power and on separation of powers in India.
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- 1 A State government starts a new activity on a subject on which the State legislature is competent to make laws. No specific law has yet been passed on that subject, and the activity does not affect anyone's legal or fund...
- 2 The Punjab Government took over the printing and sale of school textbooks without any law passed by the legislature. In Rai Sahib Ram Jawaya Kapur v. State of Punjab, what did the Supreme Court hold about the executive p...
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