Convention as a source of law

After a general election, the President of India invites the leader of the largest group in the Lok Sabha to form the government. Read the Constitution closely and you will find no sentence that says so in those words. Yet nobody treats the practice as optional. Is an unwritten rule that everyone follows, but no court enforces, really a source of law? That puzzle is what this topic is about.

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A convention is an unwritten rule of political practice that those concerned regard as binding but that courts do not enforce; it is a source of constitutional practice rather than strict law, and it differs from custom and from trade usage.

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