Preamble of Constitution of India

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

PREAMBLE

 WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a

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[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

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[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.

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

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Subs. by s. 2., ibid., for "unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).