Few things unsettle a government more than a constitutional grey zone exposed in full public view. That ambiguity was recently dragged onto the floor of Maharashtra’s Legislative Council and briskly tidied up by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. His intervention, delivered amid a rancorous debate, did more than settle an immediate dispute. It reaffirmed a basic, if often blurred, principle that legislatures may question and even censure, but they do not govern. At the heart o