Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

The Supreme Court may invalidate parliamentary laws through judicial review. Parliament, on the other hand, may amend a major portion of the Constitution through its constituent power. The Indian Parliament is not sovereign in the British sense, while the scope of judicial review in India is not identical to that of the United States.

Which one of the following conclusions is best supported by these facts?

  1. India follows the British doctrine of absolute parliamentary sovereignty
  2. The Indian Supreme Court possesses unlimited judicial supremacy identical to that of the United States
  3. Parliament loses its constituent power whenever the Supreme Court interprets a constitutional provision
  4. The Indian constitutional system attempts a synthesis between parliamentary sovereignty and judicial supremacy
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