The Constitution enshrines the Rule of Law as the inviolable foundation of the Republic—an idea elegantly expressed in the French phrase le principe de légalité : that every act of governance must be rooted in, and restrained by, law. This doctrine establishes a sacred boundary—no institution, however powerful its mandate, may act beyond the limits of authority bestowed by the Constitution or statute.

No institution, therefore, regardless of the puissance of its mandate, can operate beyond the four corners of the authority constitutionally conferred upon it. When the credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) is already under a cloud of profound scepticism from a significant spectrum of the political opposition, the initiation of the proposed pan-India special intensive revis

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