Emergencies — the article (last two digits)
11 sentencesThe national anthem lasts fifty-two seconds.
National Emergency=Art 352 — war, external aggression or armed rebellion · only on the Union Cabinet’s written advice
Effects of fifty-three medicines
Effects of the proclamation=Art 353 — the Union may direct any State on any matter · Parliament may legislate even on the State List
Rent shared by fifty-four families
Revenue sharing — the President may alter it=Art 354 — the order lasts at most until the end of the financial year in which the emergency ends; laid before Parliament
Protect fifty-five trees.
Protecting every State — the Union’s duty=Art 355 — against external aggression and internal disturbance, and to see that its government runs by the Constitution
Prem ate a fifty-six-dish feast.
President’s Rule in a State=Art 356 — breakdown of constitutional machinery in a State · on the Governor’s report “or otherwise”
The lawmakers went on leave for fifty-seven days.
Law-making powers of the State — used by Parliament=Art 357 — during 356 Parliament passes the State’s laws and budget, and may hand that power to the President
Six friends dozed off by themselves after fifty-eight minutes.
Six freedoms (Art 19) — suspended automatically=Art 358 — only on war or external aggression, without any order (not on armed rebellion)
The court was shut for fifty-nine days.
Court remedies — suspended by Presidential order=Art 359 — the right to move court for the rights named in the order is suspended; the rights themselves are not erased · on any of the three grounds
Fiona has sixty rupees in her purse.
Financial Emergency=Art 360 — threat to financial stability or credit · never used
Directions ignored sixty-five times
Directions ignored by a State=Art 365 — if a State ignores Union directions, the President may treat it as a breakdown of constitutional machinery
Emergency lights twenty and twenty-one never go off.
Emergency — still protected=Arts 20 (protection in respect of conviction) and 21 (life and personal liberty) can never be suspended — 44th Amendment, 1978
Rows 1, 5, 9 and the last are worded exactly as in the other polity chapters · 352 opens Part XVIII, 360 closes it, 356 sits in the middle — 9 Articles · in an emergency the federation works almost like a unitary state.