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AMENDMENTS & ARTICLES OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION
Amendment Procedures under Indian Constitution
Indian Constitution is a balanced Constitution. The farmers of the constitution desired to secure balance and moderate in incorporating various provision in our Constitution. As far as the amendments of the Constitution is concerned, a balance is struck in making the Constitution partly rigid and partly flexible. A flexible Constitution is one, which can be easily amended like ordinary law of the land. On the contrary, a rigid Constitution is one whose amendment is very difficult and where there is a distinction between the amendment of the Constitutional law and ordinary law. Both the types of Constitutions had their merits and demerits.
The proposal for amending the Constitution can be initiated only in the Union Legislature and the state legislatures have no such power. But the farmers of the Indian Constitution did not go to the extreme. They incorporated a unique procedure of amendment which combines both rigidity and flexibility. In this connection, it is worldwhile to quote Pandit Nehru who clearly stated, "While one wants this constitution to be solid and permanent as we can make it, there is no permanence in the Constitution. There should be certain flexibility. If you make anything rigid and permanent you stop the nation's growth, the growth of a living vital organic people.
Methods of Amendments Article 368 of the Constitution deals with procedure of amendments of the Constitution. It can be amended in three different ways:
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