Original Manuscript of Constitution of India

  CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA        22ND JAN. 1947   Dr Rajendra Prasad : The time has now arrived when you should give your   solemn votes on this Resolution. Remembering the solemnity of the occasion   and the greatness of the pledge and the promise which this Resolution   contains, I hope every Member will stand up in his place when giving his    vote in favour of it.   This Constituent Assembly declares its firm and solemn resolve to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution: (2) WHEREIN the territories that now comprise British India, the territories that now form the Indian States, and such other parts of India as are outside British India and the States as well as such other territories as are willing to be constituted into the Independent Sovereign India shall be a Union of them all; and (3) WHEREIN the said territories, whether w...

  Constituent Assembly Debates Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly on 25.11.1949 …. Because I feel, however good a Constitution may be, it is sure to turn out bad because those who are called to work it, happen to be a bad lot. However bad a Constitution may be, it may turn out to be good if those who are called to work it, happen to be a good lot. The working of a Constitution does not depend wholly upon the nature of the Constitution. The Constitution can provide only the organs of State such as the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. The factors on which the working of those organs of the State depend are the people and the political parties they will set up as their instruments to carry out their wishes and their politics. Who can say how the people of India and their parties will behave? Will they uphold constitutional methods of achieving their purposes or will they prefer revolutionary methods of achieving them? If they adopt the revolutionary me...