PREAMBLE – THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

PREAMBLE

 

 

              WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a ¹[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 ²[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.

 

Note-

¹Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s. 2, for “SOVEREIGN DEMOCRAIC REPUBLIC” (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).

              ² Subs. by s. 2., ibid., for “unity of the Nation” (w.e.f. 3-1-1977). 

 

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