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in regard to the role of the judiciary. Ambedkar had appreciatively quoted the principle that: Courts may modify, they cannot replace. They can revise earlier interpretations as new arguments, new points of view are presented, they can shift the dividing line in marginal cases, but there are barriers they cannot pass, definite assignments of power they cannot reallocate. They can give a broadening construction of existing powers, but they cannot assign to one authority powers explicitly granted to another. (Mukherjee 2007; p.214)
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