Constitutional law cases comments and questions

Constitutional law deals with the fundamental principles by which the government exercises its authority.
In some instances, these principles grant specific powers to the government, such as the power to tax and spend for the welfare of the population.
Kesavananda Bharati case (1973)
The SC held that although no part of the Constitution, including Fundamental Rights, was beyond the Parliament's amending power, the “basic structure of the Constitution could not be abrogated even by a constitutional amendment.”

Should Supreme Court analysis be included in a constitutional law course?

By conjoining large chunks of Supreme Court analysis with diverse perspectives from the scholarly literature, this edition should furnish instructors with the resources to teach a broadly intellectual as well as a doctrinally sophisticated Constitutional Law course

Not insignificantly, the book also strives for evenhandedness

What is a constitutional question in law?

The Constitution dictates that any law that is made must not violate a person's constitutional rights

When a person believes his constitutional rights are being violated by a law, that person can raise a constitutional question

He can sue the law making party for the violation of his rights

What is an example of a constitutional case?

For example, in Nixon v

United States, the Court held that the Constitution gave the Senate alone the power to determine whether it had properly tried an impeachment

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