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Describe the law making functions of the Parliament.
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The law making functions of the Parliament are given below:
- It frames new laws and amends or cancels them, if necessary, on all the 99 subjects of the Union List and all the remainder subjects which have not found a place in any of the Lists — called the Residuary list.
- In certain cases, it can make laws on the subjects of the State List also.
- The Parliament along with the State Legislature can pass laws on the 47 subjects of the Concurrent List.
- The Union Parliament has the sole right to amend the Constitution, although in certain cases, these amendments need to be ratified by a majority of the states.
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