15-12-2017, 09:27 AM
Preamble of Indian Constitution
WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into 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 TO OURSEL VES THIS CONSTITUTION
UNION AND ITS TERRITORY(Article (1 - 4)
*Article 1 says that “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States”.
*India is a Federal State, but the word Federation is not used in the Constitution.
*Indian Constitution is described as federal in term but unitary in spirit.
*The nature of the Indian Constitution is called as Quasi-Federal.
*Parliament can form new states, alter the boundaries or. names of the existing states, even without the consent of the state concerned
*A bill relating to the formation of new states, alteration of boundaries etc. can be introduced in the parliament only with the prior recommendation of the President.
*The majority needed to form a new state by the Parliament is Simple majority
