Constitutional Fiats: Presidential Legislation in India's Parliamentary Democracy

• Main Author: DAM, Shubhankar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Presidential administrations; Democracy; cabinet system; legislative bodies; India; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Law and Society; Legislation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1246; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3198/viewcontent/ShubhankarDamConstitutionFiats.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The article presents information on the presidential legislation of the parliamentary democracies, India and Pakistan. It discusses the role of the President acting as the Council of Ministers for the enactment of legislations as ordinances without the consent of the Parliament. Information on the legal interpretation of the ordinances and its interaction with the principles of the parliamentary system of the government is also presented.