(holding that a constitutional amendment may not alter the basic structure of the Constitution, including the guarantee of fundamental rights)

''The [Universal] Declaration [of Human Rights] may not be a legally binding instrument but it shows how India understood the nature of Human Rights'' when India adopted its constitution.

(found in ''The Status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in National and International Law'' by Hurst Hannum, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 25, Nos. 1&2, Fall 1995/Winter 1996, p 299)