Indian Constitution is a ‘Lawyers’ Paradise’ — Ivor Jennings
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Jennings’s “lawyer’s paradise” = a real feature of the text → length, legalism, complexity → read as a flaw
Route 2 label true of the form → but the detail was a design choice, not a defect
why Jennings said it → unusually long + detailed + technical legal language + administrative provisions → many framers were lawyers → Maheshwari himself concedes → detail invites litigation → distances the ordinary citizen
detail was a deliberate safeguard → diversity + untested democracy → precision to prevent arbitrariness and misuse → Ambedkar: the text can be perverted, so protections had to be spelt out
Route 1 description fits the form, not its purpose
Route 2 detailed text has held for decades → gave India a stable order
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Making of the Indian Constitution — 9 questions in the Vault.
- Comment on the Objective Resolution of the Constituent Assembly in 150 words.
- Comment on the Constitutional morality in the Indian Constitution in 150 words.
- Imprint of the British Constitution on the Indian Constitution.
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
The first session of Foundation 2027 is published in full.
Six programmes across three levels.