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Comment: The type of Government enshrined in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The Preamble never uses the words "parliamentary" or "federal". It enshrines a type of polity, not a machinery of rule: India is to be a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic, deriving authority from "We, the People" and existing to secure justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. The parliamentary and federal forms are choices made in the…

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  • Five Adjectives, One Type of State
  • Democratic: Representative, Responsible, Substantive
  • A Republic with a Parliamentary Head
  • Limited and Constitutional, Not Parliamentary-Sovereign
  • Welfare-Oriented and Secular
  • Assessment
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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