Vigil - An Independent Political Weekly Saturday May 27 1950

The arbitrary will of a temporary majority in the Legislature can decree a procedure by which the citizen can be deprived of this right; for in the words of the Chief Justice : By adoping the phrase 'procedure established by law' the Constittion gave the legislature the final sword to determine law." The Court even when it "may not fully approve of the prcedure prescribed under such Ac [...] The dignity the orderly and expedtious conduct of business the protection of the privileges of the House and its members against any possible attack from those in power the reglation of the question hour of debates and discussions all depend to no inconsiderable degree on the personality of the Speaker apart from the powers with which he is ivested. [...] THE Cabinet The Parliament the Cabinet and the administration are the three vital and inter-related parts of the Governmental machinery. [...] There is a steady lowering of the vitality of our people a degradation of the moral tone of the whole society certain slackening of our leaders' hold on the affection and loyalty of the people. [...] Instead of a As Pyarelal rightly says in series of fat volumes beginning these weeks spent on the with Porbandar and gradually Frontier where Gandhiji in carrying us through the life of the company of Badshah the student in London and Khan was constantly expounthe young lawyer in South ling the way of non-violence Africa and all the rest of it to the people whose tradition he takes one v