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1. Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, (1973).
2. The 24th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1971 made it obligatory for the President to give his assent to a constitutional Amendment Bill.
3. Subhas C. Kashyap, Our Parliament, National Book Trust, 1999, P. 168.
3a. This provision was added by the 101st Amendment Act of 2016. This is related to Article 279-A.
4. In USA, an amendment can also be proposed by a constitutional convention called by the Congress (American Legislature) on the petition of two-thirds of the state legislatures.
5. K.C. Wheare, Modern Constitutions, 1966, P. 43.
6. Constituent Assembly Debates, Vol. VII, P. 322-23.
7. Constituent Assembly Debates, Vol. IX, P. 976.
8. Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, Oxford, 1966, P. 25.