Word: srikrishna
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...That's a position that not everyone agrees with. "Our judges have succumbed to the temptation to interfere even with well-recognized executive powers such as treaty-making or foreign relations," wrote former Supreme Court Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna in a 2005 paper on the growth of judges as "social engineers...
...shudders to think whither this trend could lead," wrote Srikrishna, "whether, for example, the constitutionality of a declaration of war or peace treaty signed by India could also be questioned in a court of law. If the courts were to strike down the peace treaty as being "unconstitutional," would the armed forces be compelled to prosecute the war under a judicial mandamus...
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