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Paramountcy, 'Paramountcy' meant those powers which the British authorities by the might of arms, and in disregard of the sovereignty and authority of the States chose to exercise. But that paramountcy lapsed with the Indian Independence Act, 1947. It is difficult to conceive of the government of a democratic Republic exercising against its citizens 'paramountcy' claimed to be inherited from an imperial power. The power and authority which the Union may exercise against its citizens and even aliens spring from and are strictly circumscribed by the Constitution, H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur of Gwalior v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 530 (575): (1971) 1 SCC 85: (1971) 3 SCR 9.