It is welcome that the court has brought some finality to the matter of whether a governor can or cannot sit on a bill forever

xThe Supreme Court’s answers to the presidential reference on an earlier verdict of the court on the powers of state governors and the President while acting under Article 200 and Article 201 of the Constitution settles part of the controversy that cropped up in many states over the same but leaves unattended some of the substantial issues that the court itself calls “strike at the root of the continuation of our republican and democratic way and the Constitution’s federal character”.

It is welcome that the court has brought some finality to the matter of whether a governor can or cannot sit on a bill forever. This was a badly needed clarification as several of t

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