3 articles tagged with Basic Structure. Latest first.
Kesavananda was conceived to defend the Constitution against a Parliament that had begun to amend it at will. Fifty years later, the doctrine has done its job — and a good deal more.
In 1965, four judges of the Supreme Court held that Parliament's amending power was unlimited. The fifth, Justice K. Subba Rao, said the question was open. Eight years later, Kesavananda agreed. A reconstruction of the dissent that the Court had refused to entertain, and the doctrinal architecture it quietly assembled.
A unanimous nine-judge bench overruled six decades of precedent, holding that the right to privacy inheres in every person as an intrinsic part of Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed by Part III.
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