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Compare and contrast the President's power to pardon in India and in the USA. Are there any limits to it in both the countries? What are 'preemptive pardons?

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What the examiner wants

For Pardoning Power: India vs USA, compare in sequence: first, Compare and contrast the President's power to pardon in India and in the USA.; then, What are 'preemptive pardons. Keep evidence and the conclusion tied to these exact limbs.

CompareSet out the similarities and the differences side by side.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1Compare and contrast the President's power to pardon in India and in the USA≈55 words
  2. 2What are 'preemptive pardons?≈55 words

Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.

Answer plan

Define the comparison basis for Pardoning Power: India vs USASide-by-side matrix on the dimensions named in the promptImplicationsReasoned judgment

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  • Over-writing ‘Compare and contrast the President's power to pardon in India and in the USA.’ while reducing ‘What are 'preemptive pardons’ to a token paragraph
  • Listing provisions/institutions for Pardoning Power: India vs USA without connecting them to the concrete institutional tension or outcome in the prompt

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