IMPORTANCE Of

CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

THE CONSTITION OF INDIA is the heart and soul of Indian law

structure. It’s the most essential document of India. The
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA is the largest written Constitution in
the world. It was ratified on 26th January 1950 and thus making
the day of applying of the Constitution as Republic Day.

Preamble is the jist of THE CONSTITION OF INDIA. Its slightly

depicts the essence of the jurisprudencial value of THE
CONSTITION OF INDIA. It was observed that the preamble to
the Indian Constitution was not a part of the Constitution.
However, the modern view was enunciated in Keshvanada
Bharti v. State Of Kerala, where the fact that the preamble was
enacted and adopted by the same procedure as the rest of the
Constitution was emphasized and it was observed that “the
Preamble to the Constitution was a part of the Constitution and
the observations to the contrary. The Preamble was adopted by
the Constituent Assembly only after the draft constitution had
been approved. The idea was to express in a few words the
provisions of the Constitution.

One cannot lay down the theories first and then start
interpreting the constitution in the rigid framework of the
theories. That would be very restricted approach and would
lead to fallacies. Rather the approach should be to first study
the constitution and then interpret the theories accordingly in a
flexible framework. Once one believes that the constitution is
federal and then interprets the constitution in that light, this
would lead to correct interpretation, but if one lays down the
very theory of federalism in the very beginning he would be
moving in a wrong direction.

The Constitution of India provides the framework or a firm base

that defines various government institutes and sets of
fundamental rights, directive principles of state policy and
fundamental duties. And also provides explicit and well defined
powers, procedures, structure and duties of government. The
Constitution of India provides with various express features
such as the branches of the government – Execute, Legislature
and Judiciary. It also provides the concept of federalism.

The constitution is rigid as well as flexible in interpretation. As

it's ideas for various concepts are inspired from other
democratic countries such as - From USA - federal system
(federalism) , Fundamental Rights and Judicial Review, From
Australia - Concurrent list , From Ireland - Directive Principals of
State Policy , From Canada - Power distribution between centre
and state, From Russia (USSR) - Fundamental duties and five
year plan , From United Kingdom etc - Parliamentary form of
government , Single citizenship and nominal stature of the
president .
While these concepts are inspired they are used and twiked as
per the usage and applicability in the Indian society.

Constitution is a self evolving and continuously changing as per

the requirement of the Indian society. The changes are done
with the help of amendments. Thus it can be said to be a living
document. Until now there has been 104 amendments, last one
was on 25th January 2020.
The Authors of the constitution are considered to be B. R.
Ambedkar, B. N. Rau and Surendra Nath Mukherji.