Chapter 11 Amendment of the Constitution

1. How is the procedure for amendment of the Indian Constitution described?

2. What article and Part of the Constitution deal with the powers of Parliament to amend the Constitution?

3. What did the Supreme Court rule in the Kesavananda Bharati case (1973) regarding Parliament’s power to amend the Constitution?

4. What is the procedure for the amendment of the Constitution as laid down in Article 368?

5. What did the 24th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1971 make obligatory for the President?

6. What are the three ways the Constitution can be amended?

7. What provisions can be amended by a simple majority of the two Houses of Parliament outside the scope of Article 368?

8. What does the expression ‘total membership’ mean in the context of special majority?

9. What provisions can be amended by a special majority of the Parliament?

10. What provisions of the Constitution can be amended by a special majority of the Parliament and consent of half of the states?

11. What are the criticisms of the amendment procedure of the Constitution?

12. What did K.C. Wheare say about the amendment procedure?

13. What did Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru say about the Constitution’s flexibility?

14. What did Dr. B.R. Ambedkar observe about the Assembly’s approach to amending the Constitution?

15. What did K.C. Wheare admire about the Indian Constitution’s amendment procedures?

16. What case is Kesavananda Bharati vs. State of Kerala?

17. What did P. D. T. Achary write about in Constitutional Amendment in India?

18. What was added by the 101st Amendment Act of 2016?

19. How can an amendment be proposed in the USA?

20. What did K.C. Wheare write about in Modern Constitutions?