THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
PREAMBLE
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a 1[SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST
SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPU B LIC] and to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LI B ERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
and to promote among them all;
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the2[unity and integrity of the Nation];
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEM B LY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949 , do HERE B Y ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
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1. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
2. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).