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    Meaning of

    Constitution

    A Constitution is a set of Laws


    and Rules setting up the
    machinery of the government of
    a state and which defines and
    determines the relations
    between the different
    institutions and areas of
    government, the Executive, the
    Legislature and, the Judiciary,
    the Central, the Regional and
    the Local Governments.
    - M.V. Pylee
    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
    OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
    BIRDS EYE VIEW OF
    THE CONSTITUTION
    The union and its territory
    Citizenship
    Fundamental Rights and Duties
    Directive Principles of State Policy
    Provisions Regarding the Union,
    States and Union Territories
    Executive
    Parliament
    Judiciary
    Relations Between Union and States
    Services
    BIRDS EYE VIEW OF
    THE CONSTITUTION
    Finance, Property, Contracts,
    Suits, Trade & Commerce
    Emergency Provisions
    Misc., Provisions
    Scheduled and Tribal Areas
    Scheduled Castes and Tribes
    Public Service Commissions
    Official Language
    Amendment
    BASIC FEATURES OF
    THE CONSTITUTION
    Lengthiest
    Popular Sovereignty
    Judicial Independence
    Federal and Unitary
    Simple and Flexible
    RULES OF NATURAL
    JUSTICE
    No one can be a judge in his
    own cause
    No one should be condemned
    without being heard
    No one can be penalized on
    the ground of conduct which
    was not penal on the day it
    was committed
    A Quasi-Judicial order must be
    supported by reasons.
    JUDICIAL ACTIVISM

    I do think people are putting too


    much reliance on courts. I also
    believe that courts are too prone
    on problems that they have no
    business getting into. To me the
    idea of a court deciding whether or
    not girls should be permitted to
    play little league baseball is
    ludicrous. Congress too has
    contributed to this glut which I call
    legal pollution.

    - Thomas Ehrlich
    Dean Stanford Univ. of Law
    NATURE OF
    CONSTITUTION
    However good a constitution
    may be, it is true to turn out
    bad because those who are
    called to work it happen to be
    a bad lot. However, bad a
    constitution may be, it may
    turn out to be good if those
    who are called to work it
    happen to be a good lot

    - B.R. Ambedkar

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