The Ninth Schedule Verdict

Offstumped welcomes the recent Supreme Court judgment which has paved the way for judicial review of laws placed in the ninth schedule of the constitution.

Remember the purpose of the constitution is to layout general and fundamental principles, articles of faith, values that we collectively share and believe in and which are meant to form the basis for law making. So when you have the lengthiest written constitution it is indication that somewhere in the process of laying out general principles we went about making a number of special provisions and exceptions to accomodate special interests. So what then was the motivation to ammend a constitution which was already diluted in its design with IFs and BUTs.