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Father of Indian Constitution.

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar is known as the father of Indian Constitution. On


29 August 1947, the Constituent Assembly set up a Drafting Committee.
Who wrote the Indian constitution first?

• Prem Behari Narain Raizada was the calligrapher of the Indian


Constitution. The original constitution was written by him in a
following Italic style. The Calligraphy of the Hindi version of the
original Constitution was done by Vasant Krishan Vaidya.
Who wrote the Preamble of India?

• The Preamble of the Indian Constitution is based on the ‘objectives


Resolution’. Drafted and moved by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and
adopted by the Constituent Assembly.
INTRODUCTION
• The Constitution of India was drafted by the Constituent Assembly. The
Constituent Assembly held its first sitting on the 9th December, 1946. It
reassembled on the 14th August, 1947, as the sovereign Constituent
Assembly for the Dominion of India.
• Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It lays down the
framework defining fundamental political principles, establishing the
structure, procedures, powers and duties, of the government and spells out
the fundamental rights, directive principles and duties of citizens. Passed
by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, it came into effect on
26 January 1950. The date 26 January was chosen to commemorate the
declaration of independence of 1930.
• The Constitution of every country has certain special features because
the historical background ,social, economic and political conditions
influence the making of the constitution. All these factors have
contributed in the making of the Constitution of India.
WRITTEN CONSTITUTION
The written constitution is the one which you can get in the form of a
book and can be read. There are 395 Articles, 12 schedules and it has
been divided into 22 parts and till date more than 104 amendments have
been made into it. The Constitution, in its current form, consists of a
preamble, 22 parts containing 448 articles, 12 schedules, 5 appendices
and 108 amendments to date.
UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION
• The conventions grow automatically and make their special place in
the constitutional system. The important conventions of the Indian
Constitution :
• Prime Minister in Lok Sabha and Chief minister in State Legislative
Assembly is the leader of the majority party.
• The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of lok sabha are generally elected
unopposed.
• The Governor is generally taken from other state and the Chief
minister of the concerned state is consulted at the time of his
appointment.
DETAILED CONSTITUTION
• The Indian Constitution is the longest and the most detailed in the
world. A detailed list of Fundamental Rights from article 12-25 is
included in chapter 3rd of the constitution. In chapter 4th from article
35-51 a detailed list of directive principles of State Policy is also
included which are guidelines of the State in policy making. From
article 350-360 the Emergency powers of the President have also been
included in it. A detailed description of center-states relations is given
in chapter 11 and 12 of it.
CONSTITUTION DRAWN FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES
• The objective of the Constituent Assembly was not to enact an original
constitution rather to enact a good and workable constitution. The
assembly evaluated the constitutions of other countries and whatever
good they found in these constitutions, they included in their own
constitution.
• Parliamentary Government and Rule of Law are the influences of the
British Constitution.
• The Fundamental Rights and the special position of the judiciary is the
influence of the constitution of U.S.A
• The Directive Principles of State Policy have been borrowed from the
constitution of Ireland.
CONSTITUTION DRAWN FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES
• 4. The Federal system of India is the influence of Canadian
Constitution.
• 5. The method of the amendment of the constitution and the method
of the election of the members of Rajya Sabha have been borrowed
from the constitution of South Africa.
• 6. The Emergency powers of the President are the influence of the
Weimer Constitution of Germany.

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