matchless
words :
"At the bottom of all tributes paid to
democracy is the little man, walking into a
little booth, with a little pencil ... Ponnuswami. 1952 SCR 218. He explained :
"The concept of democracy as visualised by the
Constitution presupposes the representation of
the people in Parliament
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several rights and values under the Indian
Constitution. Therefore, axioms like secularism,
democracy, reasonableness, social justice etc. are
overarching principles which provide linking factor ... confer rights
which are elementary for the proper and effective
functioning of democracy. They are universally regarded
by the universal Declaration of Human Rights
other political party. In view of the pluralist democracy and the federal structure that we have accepted under our Constitution, the party or parties
provisions of this Constitution", that is to say, to
abrogate the democracy.
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and substitute for it a totally antithetical form of
Government. That ... most effectively be achieved, without
calling a democracy by any other name, by a total denial of
social, economic and political justice to the people
right to dignity of person which are the
concomitants of social democracy. These facets of
constitutional rights guaranteed to the workmen as their
Fundamental Rights ... adjusting the unequal conditions to
pave way for social and economic democracy within the spirit
drawn from the Constitution. So too, the legal redressal
within
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Constitution, find their habitation like in every constitution of modern
democracies. Equally the debates in the Constituent Assembly and the
unanimous animation of the founding ... dignity of person as basic
postulates for successful working of political democracy. Establishment of
economic and social democracy and agrarian reform as its ingrained facet
potentiality to obstruct, if not
derail, the rule of law. Democracy, which has been best defined as the
Government of the People, by the People ... pillar stone of good governance. While dealing with the
concept of democracy, the majority in Indira Nehru Gandhi v. Raj Narain [1],
stated that ‘democracy
defection is violative of
the fundamental values and principles under-lying
parliamentary democracy and violates an elective
representative's freedom of speech, right ... disqualify
elected representatives is violative of the fundamental
principles of Parliamentary democracy and is, therefor,
destructive of the basic feature of the Constitution; (2)
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