CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

                                                            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 thoughts, 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 
     TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.