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               THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA


                                  P REAMBLE

      WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute
India into a 1[SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC] and to secure to all its citizens:
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        JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
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        LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
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        EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;


and to promote among them all


        FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the 2[unity
and integrity of the Nation];


     IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of
November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO
OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.



1. Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s.2, for "SOVEREIGN
   DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
2. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for "Unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).

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