Constitution of India

{ Adopted on: 26 Jan 1950 }
    { ICL Document Status: Dec 1996 }
    { Editor's Note
    The ICL-edition of the Indian Constitution is based on the official English text, consolidated up to the Constitution (Seventy-eighth Amendment) Act, 1995 [30 Aug 1995]. The 75th to 78th Amendments have been kindly provided by Prof. Agrawal in Jan 1997. Cross-references have only been added up to Article 181. }
    Preamble
    WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
    JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
    LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
    EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
    IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
    Part I The Union and its Territory
    
    

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    © 1994 - 9. Jan. 2004 / Thanks to K.B. Agrawal.
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