salient features of indian constitution

 What is constitution

1- All these rules together are called constitution. 

2- constitution is the supreme law that determines the relationship between the people and the government

3- the constitutions explains about the different organ of the Government and their functions

What is preamble

The Preamble contains the ideal and basic principles of the Indian constitution. The Preamble is not a part of constitution but it has been described as a *key to the constitution*.The Preamble serves as the guiding light of the constitution.

It is necessary to know about the Preamble which remained unchanged till 1976 in 1976 the word socialist secular and unity and integrity of the nation where added.

Sovereign-

Our country is independent of any foreign rule.

Socialist-

A country which AIMS at social and economic equality.

Secular-

A country where all the citizen have freedom to practice their religion.

Universal adult franchise

Every citizen of India who who is at least 18 years of age is a voter to elect the representative to the Parliament and state legislature

Making of Indian Constitution

In 1928 Motilal Nehru and 8 other Congress leaders drafted a constitution for India

In 1931 the Revolution at the Karachi session of the Indian National Congress mainly deal on how independent India's constitution should look like

Both these documents were committed to the inclusion of Universal adult franchise right to freedom and equality and to protecting the right of minorities in the constitution of independent India

Constituent assembly

A body which has formed the constitution of India

The Indian Constitution adopted a many institutional details and the products from colonial are like the Government of India Act 1935

Our constitution was formed by the constituent assembly elected according to the cabinet mission proposal of May 16 1946

Constituent assembly composition

Dare to be 389 total member in the constituent assembly out of these 93 members where from the princely states and these were nominated by the prince election to the remaining 296 seats of the constituent assembly where completed by the end of July 1946 out of the 210 general seats the Congress won 201 while the Muslim League won 73 seats out of 78 allotted to the Muslim after the the partition of India on August 15 1947 the strength of constitutional assembly got reduced to 308 members

The constituent assembly had members belonging to different communities and religion of India and different political parties

Jawaharlal Nehru Rajendra Prasad Sardar Patel Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Sardar Vallabh Singh etc where some important leader who guided the decision in the Assembly

Sarojini Naidu and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit very important women member

The constituent assembly at work

The constituent assembly started its work on the 9 December 1946 with doctor sachidanand as its interem president two days later on 11th December 1946 Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as the President of the constitutional assembly

How constitution was adopted

The constitution was adopted and enacted on 26 November 1949 when it received the assent of the President of the constitution assembly Doctor Rajendra Prasad and other members it was enforced on 26 January 1950

Time and money

Constituent assembly took 2 years 11 months and 18 days in making this constitution Arya 6.4 crore were spent on the constituent assembly in this period