Modern Review June 1951

Freedom in the absolute would mean ?onverting the Constitution into the Law of the Jungle where only the richest and the most lawless of the strong ones will survive. [...] But the Article 31 of the Constitution give rise to a difference of interpretation in the courts of law and the amendment proposed sought to clarify the power of Parliament in regard to this matter. [...] (6) Nothing in Sub-Clause (0) of the said Clause Will affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it imposes or prevent the State from making any law imposing in the interests of the general public reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said Sub-Clause and in particular nothing in the said Sub-clause shell affect the opertion of any existing law in [...] Ile said that in the course of the debate yesterday Pandit Kunnu had said that the Government had done great injustice to the House by not explaining the MeV shy and the purpose of the various Clauses in the Bill sad this some one on the side of the Government should dir charge this duty to the House. [...] The argument on which the Communal G. 0. of the Madras Government was declared as void was based on the interpretation of Article 2) (2) of the Constitution which did not have the saving Clause like the one attached to Arnett;.16 (4) of the C.onstitutioti..' The Reuse will remember Dr.