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Union executive (Part V, Chapter I and III)

President: executive, legislative, ordinance and pardoning powers

Practise 6 PYQs

Concepts to cover

  1. Executive power vested in the President, exercised through ministers (Art. 53, 74)
  2. Assent, withholding and return of Bills (Art. 111)
  3. Ordinance power: conditions, scope and life (Art. 123)
  4. Pardon, reprieve, respite, remission, commutation (Art. 72)
  5. Rules of business and the Prime Minister's duty to inform (Art. 77-78)
  6. Summoning, prorogation, dissolution and address (Art. 85-87)
  7. Constitutional position after the 42nd and 44th Amendments
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