PREAMBLE

DERIVES SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC

AUTHORITY FROM REPUBLIC
THE PEOPLE

ADOPTED ON 26
NOV, 1949

JUSTICE, EQUALITY, LIBERTY,

FRATERNITY
 SOVERIEGN SOCIALIST
INDIA IS AN DEMOCRATIC
INDEPENDENT STATE SOCIALISM, MIXED
AND IT IS FREE TO ECONOMY, BLEND OF
CONDUCT ITS OWN MARXISM AND
AFFAIRS GANDHI
M ENT
EN D
ND AM
42

REPUBLIC
SECULAR HEAD OF THE STATE IS
ALL RELIGION ARE EQUAL ALWAYS ELECTED FOR
FOR THE STATE A FIXED TERM
VESTING OF POLITICAL
SOVERIEGNITY.
 DEMOCRATIC

• CONSTITUTION IS EMPOWERED BY THE PEOPLE.

• REPRESENTATIVE PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
• SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
• RESPONSIBLE EXECUTIVE
• EGALITARIAN BASE WITH EQUALITY, LIBERTY AND
FRATERNITY
 justice liberty

• Social, economic & • Though expression &

political speech
• Equal treatment for • Licence to do
all whatever one likes
• Improvement in
condition of poor

equality
fraternity

• Absence of
privileges
• No • Brotherhood
discrimination • Unity & integrity
• Civil political and • Overall development of
economic citizen
 NOT A
BERUBARI UNION CASE
PART

KESHAVANANDA BHARATI
IS A PART
CASE

INTEGRA
LIC OF INDIA CASE 1995
L PART

• PREAMBLE IS ONLY AIM AND OBJECT OF THE CONSTITUTION.

• IT IS NOT A SOURCE OF POWER TO LEGISLATURE
• IT IS NOT ENFORCEABLE
• PREAMBLE CAN BE AMENDED BUT BASIC STRUCTURE HAS TO
BE KEPT INTACT
• IT HAS BEEN AMENDED BY 42ND AMENDMENT ACT, 1976