Name of the Faculty : ARVINDER KAUR | ||
Discipline : B.TECH | ||
semester : Vth Sem | ||
subject : CONSTITUTION OF INDIA | ||
Paper Code : IT-303-F | ||
Lesson plan duration : From July 2019 to November 2019 | ||
work load lecture per week(in hours) : 3 lectures | ||
Theory | ||
Week | Lecture Day | Topic (including assignment/test) |
1st | 1 | The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India |
2 | Parliament of India can not make any law which violates the Fundamental Rights enumerated under the Part III of the Constitution. | |
3 | The Parliament of India has been empowered to amend the Constitution under Article 368, however | |
2nd | 4 | it cannot use this power to change the “basic structure” of the constitution, which has been ruled and explained by the Supreme Court of India in its historical judgments. |
5 | The Constitution of India reflects the idea of “Constitutionalism” | |
6 | a modern and progressive concept historically developed by the thinkers of “liberalism” | |
3rd | 7 | an ideology which has been recognized as one of the most popular political ideology and result of historical struggles against arbitrary use of sovereign power by state. |
8 | The historic revolutions in France, England, | |
9 | America and particularly European Renaissance and Reformation movement have resulted into progressive legal | |
4th | 10 | reforms in the form of “constitutionalism” in many countries. |
11 | The Constitution of India was made by borrowing models and principles from many countries including United Kingdom and America. | |
12 | The Constitution of India is not only a legal document but it also reflects social, political and economic perspectives of the Indian Society. | |
5th | 13 | It reflects India’s legacy of “diversity”. |
14 | It has been said that Indian constitution reflects ideals of its freedom movement, | |
15 | few critics have argued that it does not truly incorporate | |
6th | 16 | our own ancient legal heritage and cultural values. |
17 | No law can be “static” | |
18 | therefore the Constitution of India has also been amended | |
7th | 19 | more than one hundred times. |
20 | These amendments reflect political, | |
21 | social and economic developments since the year 1950 | |
8th | 22 | The Indian judiciary and particularly |
23 | The Supreme Court of India has played an historic role as the guardian of people. | |
24 | It has been protecting not only basic ideals of the Constitution | |
9th | 25 | but also strengthened the same through progressive interpretations of the text of the Constitution. |
26 | The judicial activism of the Supreme Court of India | |
27 | and its historic contributions has been recognized throughout | |
10th | 28 | the world and it gradually made it |
29 | “as one of the strongest court in the world”. | |
30 | Test and Revision |