How to Prepare for AIBE 19 Constitutional Law 2024: To prepare for the AIBE 19 Constitutional Law 2024, candidates must review the syllabus and essential texts thoroughly, focusing on key topics and landmark judgments. While the AIBE syllabus is extensive, the Constitutional Law holds significant weightage and includes a vast syllabus. Moreover, AIBE 19 Constitutional Law 2024 serves as the foundation of the other law subjects asked in the AIBE exam, necessitating more focused effort.
Constitutional Law Topics | Topics to Study | Focus Areas |
Preamble | Basic Structure Doctrine, Salient Features, Philosophy, and Objectives | Understanding the preamble's importance in Constitutional Law. |
Fundamental Rights | Articles 12-35, including various doctrines and rights. Freedom of expression, assembly, mobility, and professional practice under the Right to Freedom (Articles 19-22), Equal protection of the law, the outlawing of discrimination, and the exclusions under the right to equality (Articles 14–18), laws against child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking under the Right Against Exploitation (Articles 23–24), Right to Freedom of Religion (Article 25–28), Right to Constitutional Remedies (Article 32), Articles 29–30 on Cultural and Educational Rights. | Limitations, Important Doctrines, Landmark judgments, and scope |
Directive Principles of State Policy (Part IV) | Types of DPSPs (Significance of DPSPs in creating policies and whether the courts can enforce them or not), their relationship with Fundamental Rights, Articles 36-51 | Nature, Fundamental rights vs DPSP, Fundamental Duties as outlined in Article 51A, Significant Cases influencing the interpretation and application of DPSP. |
The Union and Its Territories (Part I) | Articles 1-4, including states and union territories | State reorganization and respective constitutional amendments. |
Citizenship (Part II) | Citizenship Acquisition and termination, Articles 5-11 | Fundamentals of Citizenship, Acquisition and Loss, Recent Changes in National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Court Cases that deal with citizenship-related matters. |
Sections V and VI: State & Union Executives | 153–167 (State Executives), and Articles 52–78 (Union Executive) | Governor's Authority, Discretionary Powers, Presidential Powers, and Electoral Processes |
Features of the Indian Constitution | Different aspects of power between federal and state government under Federalism, Definition and Importance of Secularism | Parliamentary System (Accountability of legislative branch to the executive branch) |
The Union and State Legislature (Part V and VI) | Articles 168-212 (State Legislature) and Articles 79-122 (Union Legislature) | Parliamentary Privileges, Anti-defection law, and Legislative Process |
The Judiciary (Part V and VI) | Articles 214-237 (High Courts), Articles 124-147 (Supreme Court) | Violation and waiver of fundamental rights, Important powers granted to Supreme Court (Article 32) and High Courts (Article 226) |
Federal Relations (Part XI) | Articles 245-263, legislative, administrative, and financial powers distribution | Finance commission provisions and Federalism principles |
Emergency Provisions (Part XVIII) | Articles 352-360, types of emergencies and effects on fundamental rights | Judicial Interpretation, President's Rule, and National Emergency. |
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