69 what an earlier age called ‘the natural rights of man’ and are the sort of thing guaranteed in the American bills of rights. ‘It must be conceded’, the Supreme Court has affirmed, ‘that there are such rights in every free government beyond the control of the State. A government which recognized no such rights, which held the lives, the liberty, and the property of its citizens subject at disposition all and time to unlimited the absolute control of even the most democratic depository of power, is after all but a despotism. It is true it is a despotism of the many, of the majority, if you chose to call it so, but it is nonetheless a despotism.” In A.K. Kaul V. Union of India, (1995) 4 SCC 73, the Supreme Court of India observed that in ‘a written constitution the powers of the various organs of the State are limited by the constitution. The extent of those limitations has to be determined on the interpretation of the relevant provisions of the