Original Manuscript of Constitution of India

Low voter turn out in phase one of national  election 2024- Lok Sabha bears signature of low level of sense of constitutional morality . Constitutional Morality ,  explained by Dr Ambedkar in Constituent Assembly while introducing the draft Constitution in Constituent Assembly. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS)- VOLUME VI I Thursday, the 4th November 1948 The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar  (Bombay: General):....Grote. the historian of Greece, has said that: "The diffusion of constitutional morality, not merely among the majority of any community but throughout the whole, is the indispensable condition of a government at once free and peaceable;since even any powerful and obstinate minority may render the working of a free institution impracticable, without being strong enough to conquer ascendency for themselves." By constitutional morality Grote meant "a paramount reverence for the forms of the Constitution, enforcing obedience to authority acting unde

  CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS) - VOLUME XI Monday, the21st November 1949 Shri H.J. Khandekar   Well Sir, even the social, political and religious reformers in the country like Gautama Buddha, Ramanuja, Kabir, Sant Tukaram, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Dayanand Saraswati ,  Paramahansa, Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule , Vithal Ramji Shinde, Thakkar Bapa and last but not the least, Mahatma Gandhi, found  it very difficult to get rid of this ghost of untouchability. They agitated in the country but they did not succeed. Now, Sir, we have embodied an article No. 17 in this Constitution to remove  untouchability and I am sure that untouchability will be removed, but I have seen Act for removing untouchability in the Provinces, the Temple Entry Act and the Removal of disabilities Acts passed by the different Provinces in this country. What is the effect of these laws? Not an inch of untouchability has been removed by these laws and, therefore, if this law of removing untouchability remai