In the 67 years since the people of India adopted, enacted, and gave to themselves their Constitution, a proposition of constitutional law in relation to the office of the President of the Indian Republic has come to be widely accepted. This accepted proposition, based on the authority of the judicial precedents of the Supreme Court of India, is that the Indian President is only a titular head of the executive branch and does not possess any actual executive powers.' Instead, it is the Council of Ministers (or the Union Cabinet), that exercises real executive power in India, thus making the office of the Prime Minister of India the place where the proverbial buck stops and not the office of the President of India.