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Constituent Assembly Debates Thursday 31st July 1947 Official Report

1947

I may say at once that practically in all federations this power of pardon has been divided b etween the head of the fed 3ration and the head of the unit and the principle on which this division is made is that the head of the federation has the power to pardon offences against the federal laws and the head of the unit has power to pardon offences against the unit laws. [...] The vesting of the power in the President is necessitated by the fact that we are creating a federation and we cannot omit to vest in the President of the Federation the power to pardon offences. [...] Let us remember that the strength of the Units consists in the strength of the Federation and the strength of the Federation also consists in the strength of the Units. [...] Etft-Leidonal importance and I submit it cannot be discussed from the point of view only of the rights of the Rulers of States or the Governors of provinces or for the matter of that either the Criminal Procedure Code or the provisions of the present Government of India Act. [...] That in sub-clause (1) of Clause 14 the following new item (e) be inserted :- '(e) The fixing of the actual strength of the Council of States and of the House of the People the distribution of the strength so fixed amongst the Units of the Federtion the determination of the number nature and constitution of functional panels or constituencies for the Council of States the manner in which t
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Pages
41
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Frontmatter
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Amendments of the Rules
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Report on the Union Constitution
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Announcements by the President
1043-1047 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view