Mains Paper I · 2 Indian Constitution · 2.3 Salient features and Preamble

2.3.2 Parliamentary system: Indian and British models

India took the British parliamentary (cabinet) system, in which the executive sits in and answers to the legislature, but adapted it to a republic with a written constitution and judicial review.

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Key terms

  • parliamentary government
  • cabinet government
  • Westminster model
  • collective responsibility
  • nominal executive
  • real executive
  • presidential system
  • shadow cabinet
  • dissolution
  • double membership

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