Significance of the Preamble
The Preamble embodies the basic philosophy and fundamental values—political, moral and religious
—on which the Constitution is based. It contains the grand and noble vision of the Constituent
Assembly, and reflects the dreams and aspirations of the founding fathers of the Constitution. In the
words of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer, a member of the Constituent Assembly who played a
significant role in making the Constitution, ‘The Preamble to our Constitution expresses what we had
thought or dreamt so long’.
According to K M Munshi, a member of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, the
Preamble is the ‘horoscope of our sovereign democratic republic’.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava, another member of the Constituent Assembly, summed up the
importance of the Preamble in the following words: ‘The Preamble is the most precious part of the
Constitution. It is the soul of the Constitution. It is a key to the Constitution. It is a jewel set in the
Constitution. It is a proper yardstick with which one can measure the worth of the Constitution’.
Sir Ernest Barker, a distinguished English political scientist, paid a glowing tribute to the political
wisdom of the authors of the Preamble. He described the Preamble as the ‘key-note’13 to the
Constitution. He was so moved by the text of the preamble that he quoted14 it at the opening of his
popular book, Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951).
M Hidayatullah, a former Chief Justice of India, observed, ‘Preamble resembles the Declaration of
Independence of the United States of America, but is more than a declaration. It is the soul of our
Constitution, which lays down the pattern of our political society. It contains a solemn resolve, which
nothing but a revolution can alter
The Preamble embodies the basic philosophy and fundamental values—political, moral and religious
—on which the Constitution is based. It contains the grand and noble vision of the Constituent
Assembly, and reflects the dreams and aspirations of the founding fathers of the Constitution. In the
words of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer, a member of the Constituent Assembly who played a
significant role in making the Constitution, ‘The Preamble to our Constitution expresses what we had
thought or dreamt so long’.
According to K M Munshi, a member of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, the
Preamble is the ‘horoscope of our sovereign democratic republic’.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava, another member of the Constituent Assembly, summed up the
importance of the Preamble in the following words: ‘The Preamble is the most precious part of the
Constitution. It is the soul of the Constitution. It is a key to the Constitution. It is a jewel set in the
Constitution. It is a proper yardstick with which one can measure the worth of the Constitution’.
Sir Ernest Barker, a distinguished English political scientist, paid a glowing tribute to the political
wisdom of the authors of the Preamble. He described the Preamble as the ‘key-note’13 to the
Constitution. He was so moved by the text of the preamble that he quoted14 it at the opening of his
popular book, Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951).
M Hidayatullah, a former Chief Justice of India, observed, ‘Preamble resembles the Declaration of
Independence of the United States of America, but is more than a declaration. It is the soul of our
Constitution, which lays down the pattern of our political society. It contains a solemn resolve, which
nothing but a revolution can alter
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