{"id":222815,"date":"2023-01-17T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222815"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:40:38","slug":"balance-of-powers-the-constitutional-bedrock-should-stay-untouched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/balance-of-powers-the-constitutional-bedrock-should-stay-untouched\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance of powers The constitutional bedrock should stay untouched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBalance of powers
\nThe constitutional bedrock should stay untouched\u201d <\/strong>published in the Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a017th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About basic structure doctrine.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Vice President of India in 83rd All-India Presiding Officer\u2019s conference criticised the doctrine of the basic structure for undermining parliamentary sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Prior to his comments, Lok Sabha Speaker used the same conference to say that the judiciary should \u201cconfine [itself] to its limits prescribed in the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are the major highlights of the Vice President\u2019s address?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0Vice-President says court can\u2019t dilute Parliament\u2019s sovereignty<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is the basic structure doctrine, and how was the doctrine developed?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0Basic structure Doctrine<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is the status of the Basic structure Doctrine now?<\/h2>\n

-Neither the Kesavananda Bharati judgement nor those that have come after have provided a consistent view on what features this basic structure might have.<\/p>\n

-Many subsequent judgements have relied heavily on this doctrine and it is now part of settled law.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/h2>\n

Supreme Court and some of the high courts had in the past roamed into the realm of issues that might more properly be decided by the legislature or the executive. But that has to be corrected on a case-by-case basis. Hence, Judicial overreach cannot be the reason to reverse the Basic structure doctrine.<\/p>\n

The collegium system has problems of opacity and lack of accountability. It should be addressed but not by allowing the executive to be part of the system. A just and sustainable solution is the need of the hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Bound supremacy \u2013 Parliamentary sovereignty isn\u2019t undone by the basic structure doctrine<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBalance of powers The constitutional bedrock should stay untouched\u201d published in the Business Standard on\u00a017th January 2023 Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary. Relevance: About basic structure doctrine. News: The Vice President of India in 83rd All-India Presiding Officer\u2019s conference… Continue reading Balance of powers The constitutional bedrock should stay untouched<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-222815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704875225},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}