Study material
Published material from The Law Easy that cites Article 248.
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…
411 min read
Definition: Constitutionalism is a system that gives legitimacy to a democratic government.
69 min read
Supreme Court of India · 1967
In I.C. Golaknath v. State of Punjab (1967), an eleven-judge bench of the Supreme Court held by six to five that Parliament cannot take away or curtail fundamental rights, because a constitutional amendment is also 'law' under Article 13(2). It overruled Shankari Prasad and Sajjan Singh. To avoid legal chaos, it applied the doctrine of prospective overruling for the first time in India, so the past amendments and the challenged land reform Acts stayed valid.
1 practice question tests this article.
We show statutory text only after checking it word for word against the official source. Read Article 248 of the Constitution of India on India Code.
Open India Code