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Government & States

India Is a Union of States Under Article 1 Because Ambedkar's Drafting Committee Wanted No State to Have a Right to Secede, and Parliament Can Redraw Any State by Ordinary Law

Government & States

Article 37 Says No Court Can Enforce the Directive Principles, Yet Judges and Parliament Have Built a Right to Education, Equal Pay Rulings and Pollution Orders on Them

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India's Constitution Has Three Emergency Powers, Articles 352, 356 and 360, and Parliament Must Approve Each Within One or Two Months or It Lapses

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India's Constitution Guarantees Six Groups of Fundamental Rights in Articles 12 to 35, and Article 32 Lets a Person Whose Right Is Violated Go Straight to the Supreme Court

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The Constitution of India Sets Out No Procedure for Declaring War, and the 1961 Cabinet Rules Say a Declaration of a State of War Goes to the Cabinet, the Prime Minister and the President

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India's Election Commission Ran the 2024 Lok Sabha Poll for 97.97 Crore Registered Electors at 10.5 Lakh Polling Stations Using Powers Written Into Article 324

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India's Constitution Has Been Amended 106 Times Under Article 368, Which Asks for Two-Thirds of the Members Voting in Each House and, for Federal Changes, Half the State Legislatures

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India's Prime Minister Is Appointed by the President Under Article 75(1), and the Whole Council of Ministers Answers Together to the 543-Seat Lok Sabha

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The Rajya Sabha Seats 245 Members, Is Never Dissolved, Renews About One Third of Itself Every Second Year and Cannot Amend a Money Bill

Government & States

The UPSC Recommended 958 Candidates From 9,37,876 Applicants in March 2026, and Only Three All India Services Answer to Both the Centre and the States

Government & States

India Has One Citizenship for the Whole Country, Acquired in Five Ways and Lost in Three Under Article 11 of the Constitution and the Citizenship Act of 1955

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Under Article 110 a Money Bill May Contain Only Tax, Borrowing and Consolidated Fund Matters, the Speaker Certifies It, and the Rajya Sabha Gets 14 Days to Recommend Changes the Lok Sabha Can Ignore

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Article 72 Lets the President Pardon Any Death Sentence on the Ministers' Advice, and on 21 January 2014 the Supreme Court Commuted 15 of Them After Examining How Their Mercy Petitions Were Handled

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The Supreme Court Heard a 1979 Petition for Bihar's Forgotten Prisoners That Rested on Two Newspaper Issues, and Public Interest Litigation Still Lets a Letter to the Chief Justice Start a Case

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Articles 25 to 28 Give Every Person in India the Right to Practise Any Faith, and Since 11 March 1994 the Supreme Court Has Held Secularism Part of the Constitution's Basic Structure

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Twelve States Carry Their Own Constitutional Provisions in Articles 371 to 371J, From Naga Customary Law to a Job Quota for Karnataka's Hyderabad Region

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The Indian Constitution Opened With 395 Articles, 22 Parts and 8 Schedules in 1950 and Now Runs to 25 Parts and 12 Schedules After 106 Amendment Acts

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India's 85-Word Preamble Was Amended Once, in 1976, to Add 'Socialist', 'Secular' and 'Integrity', and the Supreme Court Declined to Remove Them on 25 November 2024

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India's Constitution Has 12 Schedules That Fix 233 Rajya Sabha Seats, Divide Lawmaking Across Three Lists, Name 22 Languages and Set the Anti-Defection Rule

Government & States

The President of India Appoints the Prime Minister, Judges and Governors, Assents to Every Bill and Can Commute Death Sentences, but Article 74 Binds the President to the Council of Ministers' Advice With One Right of Reconsideration

Government & States

Six of India's 28 States Have a Second House, From Uttar Pradesh's 100-Seat Legislative Council to Telangana's 40, and Article 169 Lets Parliament Add or Abolish One

The Constituent Assembly Opened on 9 December 1946 Without the Muslim League, Spent 114 Days Debating the Draft Constitution, and Had 15 Women Among Its Members

A Seven-Member Committee Sat 141 Days to Draft India's Constitution, and Its Chairman B. R. Ambedkar Told the Assembly the Credit Did Not Really Belong to Him