Article 356, Constitution

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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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First, let us understand the basic meaning. Normally, a Legislative Assembly is elected, meets, and functions for up to five years unless dissolved earlier. Rameshwar Prasad & Ors. vs. Union of India (2006) asks a startling question: can an assembly be dissolved before it has even held its first me…

A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that the President's satisfaction under Article 356 is not absolute and is open to judicial review. The Court held that a government's majority must be tested on the floor of the Assembly, not at Raj Bhavan, and declared secularism and federalism to be basic features of the Constitution. The case put a clear brake on the misuse of President's Rule against State governments.