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In which of the following cases has the Supreme Court of India laid down that “... The parliamentary…

The passage is from State of West Bengal v. Union of India. In the dispute over Parliament’s power to acquire State-owned property, the Court rejected an implied limit based…

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In which of the following cases has the Supreme Court of India laid down that “... The parliamentary power of legislation to acquire property is, subject to the express provisions of the Constitution, unrestricted. To imply limitations on that power on the assumption of that degree of political sovereignty which makes the States coordinate with and independent of the Union, is to envisage a Constitutional scheme which does not exist in law or in practice.”?

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The passage is from State of West Bengal v. Union of India. In the dispute over Parliament’s power to acquire State-owned property, the Court rejected an implied limit based on treating the States as politically sovereign and independent of the Union. Parliament’s acquisition power remains subject to the Constitution’s express provisions.

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