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Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Limits of the Constitution

There are limits to what the parliament can do by way of amending the constitution. So there is no straightforward constitutionally correct option to wholesale overturn the fundamental nature of the constitution itself. You need a different constitutional regime in order to bring in a new constitution you cannot just marginally keep tinkering and getting to that point. Now we may well get to that point if the courts do not stand up for the constitution which they are there to interpret and protect. If you might actually do this and then you will be back here and we'll be discussing another thing.

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