CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LEGISLATIVE POWER OF EXECUTIVE
UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY STUDIES
COLLEGE OF LEGAL STUDIES
DEHRADUN
ASSIGNMENT: II (TWO)
TOPIC: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF
LEGISLATIVE POWER OF EXECUTIVE
SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Submitted By:
Ananaya Sachdeva
BA LLB
Semester VI
Federalism in India is at once similar and distinct from other federations like that of America; distinct in that it is not a group of independent States coming together to form a federation by conceding a portion of their rights of government, but a distributed entity that derives its power from a single source - the Union. Sovereignty and the powers of governance are distributed and shared by several entities and organs within the Indian constitutional system. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, stressed the importance of describing India as a 'Union of States' rather than a 'Federation of States.' He said: '. . . what is important is that the use of the word “Union” is deliberate . . . Though the country and the people may be divided into different States for convenience of administration, the country is one integral whole, its people a single people living under a single imperium derived from a single source.' The similarity between the systems of government in the two countries, however, is remarkable. Both governments exhibit a strong Union control, where the individual States give up a significant portion of their autonomous rights to the Central Government in return for security and pursuit of common interests; in contrast, in a confederation the individual States retain most of their sovereignty and are only loosely bound together. In the words of Alexander Hamilton (the illustrious co-author of the Federalist Papers, along with James Madison and John Jay), when describing the proposed Constitution of the Federal Government of the United States of America, The definition of a confederate republic seems simply to be an 'assemblage of
COLLEGE OF LEGAL STUDIES
DEHRADUN
ASSIGNMENT: II (TWO)
TOPIC: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF
LEGISLATIVE POWER OF EXECUTIVE
SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Submitted By:
Ananaya Sachdeva
BA LLB
Semester VI
Federalism in India is at once similar and distinct from other federations like that of America; distinct in that it is not a group of independent States coming together to form a federation by conceding a portion of their rights of government, but a distributed entity that derives its power from a single source - the Union. Sovereignty and the powers of governance are distributed and shared by several entities and organs within the Indian constitutional system. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, stressed the importance of describing India as a 'Union of States' rather than a 'Federation of States.' He said: '. . . what is important is that the use of the word “Union” is deliberate . . . Though the country and the people may be divided into different States for convenience of administration, the country is one integral whole, its people a single people living under a single imperium derived from a single source.' The similarity between the systems of government in the two countries, however, is remarkable. Both governments exhibit a strong Union control, where the individual States give up a significant portion of their autonomous rights to the Central Government in return for security and pursuit of common interests; in contrast, in a confederation the individual States retain most of their sovereignty and are only loosely bound together. In the words of Alexander Hamilton (the illustrious co-author of the Federalist Papers, along with James Madison and John Jay), when describing the proposed Constitution of the Federal Government of the United States of America, The definition of a confederate republic seems simply to be an 'assemblage of