Meaning of

Constitution

A Constitution is a set of Laws

and Rules setting up the
machinery of the government of
a state and which defines and
determines the relations
between the different
institutions and areas of
government, the Executive, the
Legislature and, the Judiciary,
the Central, the Regional and
the Local Governments.
- M.V. Pylee
 PREAMBLE
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having
solemnly resolved to constitute India into
a 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
OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
 BIRDS EYE VIEW OF
THE CONSTITUTION
The union and its territory
Citizenship
Fundamental Rights and Duties
Directive Principles of State Policy
Provisions Regarding the Union,
States and Union Territories
Executive
Parliament
Judiciary
Relations Between Union and States
Services
 BIRDS EYE VIEW OF
THE CONSTITUTION
Finance, Property, Contracts,
Suits, Trade & Commerce
Emergency Provisions
Misc., Provisions
Scheduled and Tribal Areas
Scheduled Castes and Tribes
Public Service Commissions
Official Language
Amendment
 BASIC FEATURES OF
THE CONSTITUTION
Lengthiest
Popular Sovereignty
Judicial Independence
Federal and Unitary
Simple and Flexible
 RULES OF NATURAL
JUSTICE
No one can be a judge in his
own cause
No one should be condemned
without being heard
No one can be penalized on
the ground of conduct which
was not penal on the day it
was committed
A Quasi-Judicial order must be
supported by reasons.
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM

I do think people are putting too

much reliance on courts. I also
believe that courts are too prone
on problems that they have no
business getting into. To me the
idea of a court deciding whether or
not girls should be permitted to
play little league baseball is
ludicrous. Congress too has
contributed to this glut which I call
legal pollution.

- Thomas Ehrlich
Dean Stanford Univ. of Law
 NATURE OF
CONSTITUTION
However good a constitution
may be, it is true to turn out
bad because those who are
called to work it happen to be
a bad lot. However, bad a
constitution may be, it may
turn out to be good if those
who are called to work it
happen to be a good lot

- B.R. Ambedkar