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Revision note: Fundamental Rights versus Directive Principles; Fundamental Duties

  • FRs: negative, justiciable, political democracy; DPSPs: positive, non-justiciable, socio-economic democracy
  • Champakam 1951 → 1st Amdt; Golaknath 1967; 24th & 25th Amdts 1971 (Art 31C for 39(b),(c))
  • Kesavananda 1973 struck bar on judicial review; 42nd extended 31C; Minerva Mills 1980 struck it – balance = basic feature
  • 2024: not every private resource is a "material resource of the community"
  • Part IVA, Art 51A: 10 duties (42nd Amdt 1976, Swaran Singh); 11th by 86th Amdt 2002
  • From USSR; citizens only; non-justiciable; Verma Committee 1999
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