{"id":223786,"date":"2023-01-25T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223786"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:43:03","slug":"structural-strength-the-basic-structure-of-the-constitution-has-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/structural-strength-the-basic-structure-of-the-constitution-has-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural strength &#8211; The basic structure of the Constitution has authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cStructural strength &#8211; The basic structure of the Constitution has authority\u201d <\/strong>published in the <b>Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a0<b>25th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About basic structure doctrine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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<h2><span id=\"What_are_the_major_highlights_of_the_Vice_Presidents_address\">What are the major highlights of the Vice President\u2019s address?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vice-president-says-court-cant-dilute-parliaments-sovereignty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice-President says court can\u2019t dilute Parliament\u2019s sovereignty<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span id=\"What_is_the_basic_structure_doctrine_and_how_was_the_doctrine_developed\">What is the basic structure doctrine, and how was the doctrine developed?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/basic-structure-doctrine\/\">Basic structure Doctrine<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are the concerns associated with the basic structure doctrine?<\/h2>\n<p>The apex court in Singapore, which too has a post-British legal system similar to India\u2019s, deliberately did not adopt the basic-structure doctrine. The court also explained the reasons for not adopting the doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>The court argued that the basic-structure doctrine emerged from the justifiable claim that Constitutions drafted by a Constituent Assembly held a different status in their relationship to the legislature from Constitutions drafted by a regular Parliament.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Why_basic_structure_doctrine_is_not_undermining_parliamentary_sovereignty\">Why basic structure doctrine is not undermining parliamentary sovereignty?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bound-supremacy-parliamentary-sovereignty-isnt-undone-by-the-basic-structure-doctrine\/\">Bound supremacy \u2013 Parliamentary sovereignty isn\u2019t undone by the basic structure doctrine<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Over the years, the basic structure of the Constitution had served as the \u201cNorth Star\u201d for legal interpreters of that document. Further, the basic-structure doctrine keeps the Indian state tethered constitutionally to the norms, ideas, and values of 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cStructural strength &#8211; The basic structure of the Constitution has authority\u201d published in the Business Standard on\u00a025th 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/structural-strength-the-basic-structure-of-the-constitution-has-authority\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Structural strength &#8211; The basic structure of the Constitution has authority<\/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-223786","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":1704818075},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223786","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=223786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}