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Q62 (IAS/1998) Polity & Governance › Constitutional Basics & Evolution › Parliamentary system Answer Verified

The Indian parliamentary system is different from the British parliamentary system in that India has

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The key distinction is that the Indian Constitution establishes judicial review, enabling an independent judiciary and the Supreme Court to invalidate parliamentary laws that violate fundamental rights or constitutional provisions; consequently Parliament is not absolutely supreme in India. By contrast, the traditional British doctrine emphasizes parliamentary sovereignty and lacks a comparable system of constitutional judicial review, so courts do not possess the same power to strike down primary legislation. Therefore option (4) is the difference.

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