Parliamentary Sovereignty

You have just read that an Indian court can strike down even a constitutional amendment if it damages the Constitution's basic structure. Now hold that against a very different idea, one built into the British system this doctrine comes from: a Parliament so supreme that no court can question anything it enacts. Two democracies, two completely different answers to the same question — who has the last word?

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Parliamentary sovereignty is the doctrine that Parliament is the supreme law-making authority within the State, whose laws no court or other body can override — a doctrine that fits the United Kingdom closely but only partially, and with real limits, fits India.

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