Constituent Assembly

5 notes tagged Constituent Assembly.

• Polity

  The Preamble and Making of India's Constitution

  The Constituent Assembly's key figures, the Objectives Resolution, what each word in the Preamble means, and why Kesavananda overturned Berubari on it.

• Polity

  Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

  Why India's Constitution is the world's lengthiest, what it actually borrowed from other countries, and why Ambedkar called it federal in form but unitary in spirit.

• Polity

  India's Parliamentary System, Explained

  Parliamentary versus presidential government through Ambedkar's own words to the Constituent Assembly, and the features that define India's system.

• Polity

  Making of the Constitution: Committees and Sources

  How the Constituent Assembly's committees, three readings and 2,473 debated amendments produced the Constitution, and which provisions came from where.

• History

  Constituent Assembly's Committees and Drafters

  Beyond Ambedkar: Nehru and Patel's other Constituent Assembly committees, the rest of the Drafting Committee, and the three readings before signing.