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The Preamble of the Indian Constitution reflects itself as a ‘social contract’. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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Social contract theory explains political authority as the product of consent rather than conquest, heredity or divine right. Thomas Hobbes traded liberty for security, John Locke made government a revocable trust, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau made the people sovereign through the general will. The Preamble's grammar is contractual in each sense, within limits.

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  • The Contracting Parties: "We, the People"
  • The Terms of the Bargain
  • Consent Renewed
  • Limits of the Analogy
  • Conclusion
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