Q.Best description of Fundamental Rights: all rights an individual should have / all rights given by law / rights given+protected by Constitution / rights that cannot ever be restricted.
Fundamental Rights are the basic rights of the people that are given legal sanction and protection
by the Constitution -- not simply "all rights an individual should have" or "all rights given by
law."
"All the rights that an individual should have" is too broad and too vague -- it describes an ideal,
not the specific, enumerated list of six categories (Equality, Freedom, against Exploitation, Freedom
of Religion, Cultural and Educational Rights, and Constitutional Remedies) that Part III of the
Indian Constitution actually contains. "All the rights given by the laws of the country" is also too
broad, since it would include ordinary legal rights created by Parliament through regular
legislation -- these can be changed by a simple majority in Parliament and lack the special
constitutional protection Fundamental Rights enjoy. "Rights that are important as decided by the
Supreme Court" misplaces where these rights come from -- they are laid down in the Constitution
itself; courts interpret and enforce them, but do not invent the list.
What makes a right "fundamental" specifically is that it is named in Part III of the Constitution,
given the special legal status of being directly enforceable through Article 32 and Article 226, and
protected against ordinary legislative change (subject only to constitutional amendment, itself
bound by the basic-structure doctrine).
Fundamental Rights are the basic rights of the people that are given legal sanction and protection by the Constitution.
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