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Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Monday 13th December 1948

1948

The President shall be elected by the adult citizens of India voting by secret ballot in each constituent part of the Union.' " The original article provides for the election of the President by an electoral college consisting of the members of the Central Legislature as well as those of the Provincial or States legislatures. [...] If the President was in the same position as the President of the United States who is vested with all the executive authority of the United States I could have understood the argument in favour of direct election because of the principle that wherever a person is endowed with the same enormousness of powers as the President of the United States it is only natural that the choice of such a per [...] In other words the judiciary would he endowed with the authority to question the law not merely on the ground whether it was in excess of the authority of the legislature but also on the ground whether the law was good law apart from the question of the powers of the legislature making the law. [...] That being the position the value of the votes cast in the election of the President by the members of the State Legislatures cannot be measured by the simple rule of assigning one vote one value. [...] The formula adopted to obtain the value of a vote cast by an elected member of the Legislature of a State is to divide the population of that state by the total number of elected members of the Legislature of that State; and to divide the quotient so obtained by 1 000 and if the remainder is not less than 500 then add one to the dividend.
government politics public policy
Pages
37
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-991 unknown view
Draft Constitution
991-1025 unknown view