Chapter : 3. Constitution Design
Preamble of the Indian Constitution
Taking inspiration from the American model, most countries of the modern world have chosen to begin their Constitutions with a preamble. India has also done so. The preamble to the Indian Constitution incorporates all the guiding values inspired and nurtured by the Freedom Struggle. The Preamble to the Indian Constitution runs like this -
WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, hereby solemnly resolved to constitute India into SOVEREIGN, SOCIALIST, SECULAR, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens :
1. JUSTICE, social, economic and political
2. LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship
3. EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all
4. FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of the Nation ;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, Enact and Give to Ourselves this Constitution.
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