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Revision note: The Preamble: Text, Keywords and Judicial Interpretation

  • Based on Objectives Resolution (Nehru); "identity card" (Palkhivala)
  • Nature of State: sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic, republic
  • Objectives: justice (social, economic, political), liberty, equality, fraternity
  • 42nd Amdt 1976 added socialist, secular, integrity – only amendment so far
  • Berubari 1960: not part; Kesavananda 1973 & LIC 1995: part of Constitution
  • Amendable under Art 368, but basic features cannot be destroyed
  • Non-justiciable; neither source of power nor limitation
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