Constitution of India - System of Government

System of Government

The basic form of the Union Government envisaged in the Constitution is as follows,

A democratic executive must satisfy three conditions:

1. It must be a stable executive, and
2. It must be a responsible executive.
To date, both conditions have not been attained to an equal degree concurrently.

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