Indian Constitution – An Introduction
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INDIAN CONSTITUTION
The people don???t know their powers and their rights. In order to know their powers and their rights the Indian constitution was formed.
The Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950
WHY DOES A COUNTRY NEED A CONSTITUTION?
The Constitution serves several purposes.
1. It lays out certain ideals that form the basis of the kind of country that we as citizens aspire to live in.
2. To defines the nature of a country???s political system.
3. To save us from ourselves
THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION: KEY FEATURES
1. Federalism
2. Parliamentary Form of Government
3. Separation of Powers
4. Fundamental Rights
5. Secularism
Indian Constitution contains fundamental political principles, establishes the structure, procedures, powers and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles and the duties of citizens.
The different features of the Indian Constitution outlined above, involve complicated ideas that are often not easy to grasp. Don???t worry too much about this for the moment.
In the rest of the articles you will read more about these different features of the Indian Constitution and understand more substantively what they mean.
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