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{{short description|Common law
{{Indian Constitution TOC}}
The '''basic structure doctrine''' is a [[common law]] [[legal doctrine]] that the constitution of a sovereign state has certain characteristics that cannot be erased by its legislature. The doctrine is recognised in [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Uganda]]. It was developed by the [[Supreme Court of India]] in a series of [[constitutional law]] cases in the 1960s and 1970s that culminated in ''[[Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala]]'', where the doctrine was formally adopted. Bangladesh is perhaps the only legal system in the world which recognizes this doctrine with an expressed, written and rigid constitutional manner through article 7B of its [[Constitution of Bangladesh|Constitution]].
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