RULE OF LAW: UNDERSTANDING ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN UPHOLDING CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES
Khushboo Rupani, Ph.D., Research Scholar at School of Legal Studies, Vikrant University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh (India)
The study investigates how the Rule of Law serves as an essential requirement which enables constitutional governance to function in India while investigating its power to maintain constitutional order and its capacity to safeguard personal rights. The assessment of the Rule of Law begins with the Constitution’s essential principles which establish its fundamental elements and operational elements which include constitutional supremacy and restricted government and non-arbitrary decision making and equality and accountability. The research examines how Articles 13 and 14 and 19 and 21 define legal frameworks which limit both legislative and executive authorities while Articles 32 and 226 establish paths to justice which convert rights into real-world security measures. The study explores how Indian legal systems developed from a formal compliance framework toward a rights based constitutional system which uses constitutional standards and open procedures to evaluate governmental activities. The research evaluates institutional protections which maintain democratic equilibrium by examining legal restrictions on discretionary powers and administrative accountability systems. The Right to Information Act 2005 together with the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 create statutory frameworks which promote judicial transparency while creating pathways to justice and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 procedural changes examine their effects on processes which protect individual liberties. The research identifies ongoing problems which include excessive use of discretion and delayed justice and corruption and unfair law enforcement and presents suggestions which aim to strengthen transparency practices and integrity systems and constitutional remedy procedures.
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| Research Paper | LawFoyer International Journal of Doctrinal Legal Research (LIJDLR), Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 529–556. |
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