Basic structure doctrine (English Wikipedia)

"Constitution Amendment: Nature and Scope of the Amending Process" (PDF). Lok Sabha Secretariat. pp. 14–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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"Special Reference Pursuant to Constitution, Section 19: In the Matter of the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates, Reference by the Provincial Executive Council of the Fly River Provincial Government of Western Province" (PDF). Papua New Guinea Supreme Court of Justice. 7 July 2010. pp. 40–41. Under the structure of government and distribution of powers between the three arms of government, the legislative power is vested in the parliament and it has unlimited law-making powers. However, the exercise of its legislative power is always subject to the Constitution. The exercise of the legislative power to amend or alter the Constitution is not made subject to any foreign doctrine such as the "basic structure" doctrine. The Constitution is intended to be construed in accordance with the principles and the use of certain materials as aids to interpretation provided in the Constitution.

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Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution - A History of the Indian Experience. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 258–277. ISBN 978-019565610-7.

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"Civil Appeal No. 18 19 21 of 2012 THE ATTORNEY GENERAL v THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN BANK LIMITED v DEAN BOYCE and FORTIS ENERGY INTERNATIONAL (BELIZE) INC v THE ATTORNEY GENERAL" (PDF). Judiciary of Belize. 15 May 2014. Section [3](iii). Retrieved 20 December 2023.

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"Case Name: Sajjan Singh vs State of Rajasthan". E-Justice India. Retrieved 6 May 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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NOORANI, A. G. (Apr 28 – May 11, 2001). "Behind the 'basic structure' doctrine : On India's debt to a German jurist, Professor Dietrich Conrad". Frontline. the Hindu group. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014. THERE is, sadly, little acknowledgment in India of that debt we owe to a distinguished German jurist and a scholar steeped in other disciplines beyond the confines of law - Professor Dietrich Conrad, formerly Head of the Law Department, South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany....It was no mere coincidence that a German jurist had thought of implied limitations on the amending power. Article 79(3) of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, adopted on May 8, 1949, six months before the drafting of India's Constitution ended, bars explicitly amendments to provisions concerning the federal structure and to "the basic principles laid down in Articles 1 and 20 (on human rights and the "democratic and social" set-up). The Germans learnt from the bitter experience of the Nazi era. The framers of the Constitution of India refused to look beyond the Commonwealth countries and the United States....Prof. Conrad aptly remarked that "in this free trade of constitutional ideas the Indian Supreme Court has come to play the role of an exporter. This holds true with respect to at least two major innovations introduced by the court"; namely, public interest litigation and "the basic structure doctrine".

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"The basic features". The Hindu. 2004-09-26. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"Revisiting a verdict". Vol. 29, no. 1. Frontline. Jan 14–27, 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-07-09.

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Rizvi, Majid (2015-09-18). "South Asian Constitutional Convergence Revisited: Pakistan and the Basic Structure Doctrine". I-CONnect. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2020-11-22.

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"Kesavananda Bharati .... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Para. 316. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
"Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Para. 787. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"13 member constitutional bench verdict (refer paras 316 and 317) in Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April,1973". Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

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"British Caribbean Bank Ltd v AG Belize Claim No. 597 of 2011" (PDF). Supreme Court of Judicature of Belize. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-22. Retrieved 2020-11-22.

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Jasdeep Randhawa. "Understanding Judicialization Of Mega-Politics : The Basic Structure Doctrine And Minimum Core". Jus Politicum. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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Satya Prateek (2008). "Today's Promise, Tomorrow's Constitution: 'Basic Structure', Constitutional Transformations And The Future Of Political Progress In India" (PDF). NUJS Law Review. 1 (3). Retrieved 2012-07-17.^{[permanent dead link]}

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"Minerva Mills Ltd. & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors". Open Archive. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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Raghav Sharma (2008-04-16). "Minerva Mills Ltd. & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors: A Jurisprudential Perspective". Social Science Research Network. SSRN 1121817.

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"Phang CHIN HOCK v Public Prosecutor - [1980] - Law LAW224". StuDocu. Retrieved 2019-11-18.

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"District Bar Association v Federation of Pakistan, 2015" (PDF). Supreme Court of Pakistan. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-11-22.

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Sanghi, Sanskriti (2017-01-22). "The Basic Structure doctrine goes global". The Law Blog. Law Matters Centre for Research, Education, and Social Action. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-11-22.

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O'Brien, Derek (2013-05-28). "Derek O'Brien: The Basic Structure Doctrine and the Courts of the Commonwealth Caribbean". UK Constitutional Law Blog. UK Constitutional Law Association. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
bin Haris, Isaam (2015-09-24). "Isaam Bin Haris: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments – Pakistan's Uneasy Subscription to the Basic Structure Doctrine". UK Constitutional Law Blog. UK Constitutional Law Association. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-11-22.

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"The basic features". The Hindu. 2004-09-26. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"Kesavananda Bharati .... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"Revisiting a verdict". Vol. 29, no. 1. Frontline. Jan 14–27, 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Para. 316. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
"Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973". Indian Kanoon. Para. 787. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
"13 member constitutional bench verdict (refer paras 316 and 317) in Kesavananda Bharati ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April,1973". Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
"Constitution Amendment: Nature and Scope of the Amending Process" (PDF). Lok Sabha Secretariat. pp. 14–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Jasdeep Randhawa. "Understanding Judicialization Of Mega-Politics : The Basic Structure Doctrine And Minimum Core". Jus Politicum. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
NOORANI, A. G. (Apr 28 – May 11, 2001). "Behind the 'basic structure' doctrine : On India's debt to a German jurist, Professor Dietrich Conrad". Frontline. the Hindu group. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014. THERE is, sadly, little acknowledgment in India of that debt we owe to a distinguished German jurist and a scholar steeped in other disciplines beyond the confines of law - Professor Dietrich Conrad, formerly Head of the Law Department, South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany....It was no mere coincidence that a German jurist had thought of implied limitations on the amending power. Article 79(3) of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, adopted on May 8, 1949, six months before the drafting of India's Constitution ended, bars explicitly amendments to provisions concerning the federal structure and to "the basic principles laid down in Articles 1 and 20 (on human rights and the "democratic and social" set-up). The Germans learnt from the bitter experience of the Nazi era. The framers of the Constitution of India refused to look beyond the Commonwealth countries and the United States....Prof. Conrad aptly remarked that "in this free trade of constitutional ideas the Indian Supreme Court has come to play the role of an exporter. This holds true with respect to at least two major innovations introduced by the court"; namely, public interest litigation and "the basic structure doctrine".
"Minerva Mills Ltd. & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors". Open Archive. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
"India - The Constitution". Countrystudies.us. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
"Behind the 'basic structure' doctrine". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
"British Caribbean Bank Ltd v AG Belize Claim No. 597 of 2011" (PDF). Supreme Court of Judicature of Belize. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-22. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
O'Brien, Derek (2013-05-28). "Derek O'Brien: The Basic Structure Doctrine and the Courts of the Commonwealth Caribbean". UK Constitutional Law Blog. UK Constitutional Law Association. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
"British Caribbean Bank Limited v. The Government of Belize PCA 2010-18". Permanent Court of Arbitration. 2014-12-19. Archived from the original on 2020-11-22. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
"District Bar Association v Federation of Pakistan, 2015" (PDF). Supreme Court of Pakistan. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-11-22.
Sanghi, Sanskriti (2017-01-22). "The Basic Structure doctrine goes global". The Law Blog. Law Matters Centre for Research, Education, and Social Action. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
Rizvi, Majid (2015-09-18). "South Asian Constitutional Convergence Revisited: Pakistan and the Basic Structure Doctrine". I-CONnect. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
bin Haris, Isaam (2015-09-24). "Isaam Bin Haris: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments – Pakistan's Uneasy Subscription to the Basic Structure Doctrine". UK Constitutional Law Blog. UK Constitutional Law Association. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-11-22.