{"id":20335,"date":"2024-02-10T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20335"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:09:34","slug":"preamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/preamble\/","title":{"rendered":"Preamble of the Indian Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Preamble of the Indian Constitution<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The preamble of the Indian Constitution\u00a0serves as a brief introductory statement of the Constitution that\u00a0sets out the guiding purpose, principles, and philosophy of the Indian Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>The Preamble is\u00a0based on the Objectives Resolution\u2019, drafted and moved\u00a0by Jawaharlal Nehru and\u00a0adopted by the Constituent Assembly on January 22, 1947.<\/li>\n<li>The Preamble\u00a0reveals four ingredients or components:\n<ul>\n<li>Source of authority of the Constitution: It is indicated by the Preamble that the source of authority of the Constitution\u00a0lies with the people of India.<\/li>\n<li>Nature of the Indian State: It declares India to be a\u00a0sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic.<\/li>\n<li>Objectives of the Constitution: The objectives stated by the Preamble are to\u00a0secure justice, liberty, and equality to all citizens and\u00a0promote fraternity to maintain unity and integrity\u00a0of the nation.<\/li>\n<li>Date of adoption of the Constitution: It stipulates\u00a0November 26, 1949,\u00a0as the date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Amendments:\u00a0By the\u00a042nd Amendment of 1976, the\u00a0words \u201cSocialist\u201d and \u201cSecular\u201d\u00a0were inserted; the Preamble now reads \u201cSovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Interpretation by the Supreme Court:\n<ul>\n<li>Berubari Union case: In this case, it was held by the Supreme Court that the\u00a0Preamble is part of the Constitution. However, it recognised that the Preamble\u00a0could be used as a guiding principle if a term in any article of the Constitution\u00a0is ambiguous or has more than one meaning.<\/li>\n<li>Keshvananda Bharti v. State of Kerala: In this case, the Supreme Court overturned its earlier decision and\u00a0held that the Preamble is a part of the Constitution and can be amended\u00a0under Article 368 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Again, in the\u00a0LIC of India case, the Supreme Court held that the\u00a0Preamble is a part of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Constituent Assembly of India?<\/h3>\n<p>The Indian Constitution was made by the Constituent Assembly, which came into existence as per the provisions of the Cabinet Mission of May 1946. Its task was to formulate a Constitution for facilitating the appropriate transfer of sovereign power from British authorities to Indian hands. It comprised members who were partly elected and partly nominated. The elected members were indirectly elected by members of the provincial legislative Assembly, who were elected on the limited franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/could-preamble-have-been-amended-without-altering-constitution-s-adoption-date-sc-asks-101707506343224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Could Preamble have been amended without altering Constitution\u2019s adoption date, SC asks<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preamble of the Indian Constitution serves as a brief introductory statement of the Constitution that sets out the guiding purpose, principles, and philosophy of the Indian Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}