With regard to Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava’s amendment that the words ‘any law’ should be substituted by the words ‘any reasonable law’, it would be useless in practice. If any law is to be passed, it is to be passed by the Legislature. It has always to be assumed that the Legislature passes a law which is, or at least it considers to be reasonable and not unreasonable. After all, a Legislature is absolutely free. The Legislature cannot contravene any constitutional limitation. But the word ‘reasonable’ cannot be a condition. That condition must be assumed in their very power, and the fact that elected men will make laws necessarily implies that the laws made are reasonable. But supposing we introduce this expression and make it “reasonable law” it will have no binding force on the Legislature. The word ‘reasonable’ would not in the least curtail their power or in the least fetter their discretion. In these circumstances, the word ‘reasonable’ would be absolutely unnecessary and quite meaningless in practice, and so the amendment should not be accepted; and so far as the Contempt of Court amendment is concerned, for the time being it should be accepted, subject of course to further consideration by the Drafting Committee that there is no overlapping in two places.
