Lord Mount Batten 

1. The Constituent Assembly completed the constitution on 26th November 1949.

2. But it was imposed on 26th January 1950 to give due importance to the date, 26th January.

3. To mark this day we celebrate it as the Republic Day every year. 

1. Constituent Assembly was not elected directly by all the people of India.

2. It was elected mainly by the members of the existing Provincial Legislatures.

3. The Assembly was dominated by the Indian National Congress. 

1. Over the last half of century, several groups have questioned some provisions of the constitution.

2. But no large social group or political party has ever questioned the legitimacy of the constitution itself.

3. This is an unusual achievement for any constitution. 

1. The whites agreed to the principle of majority rule and that of one person, one vote.

2. They also agreed to accept some basic rights for the poor and the workers.  

3. The Blacks agreed that majority would not be absolute.

4. They agreed that the majority would not take away the property of the white people

1. Dr Ambedkar was the chairman of the Drafting Committee.

2. He was a social revolutionary thinker and agitator against caste divisions and caste based inequalities.

3. He played a very important role in the making of the constitution but had a different understanding of how inequalities could be removed.

4. He often bitterly criticized Mahatma Gandhi and his vision. 

1. It is true that the constitution is the supreme law of a country.

2. It is the foundation of a democratic entity.

3. The rules laid down in the constitution are basis on which all the other laws are framed.

4. It follows that the constitutional rules have the same authority, perhaps even greater, as any other law of a country. 

1. Indian constitution begins with a short statement of its basic values. This is called Preamble.

2. It is very long and detailed document.

3. It has to be in accordance with people’s aspiration and changes in society.

4. Indian constitution lays down a procedure for choosing persons to govern the country.

5. It is very rigid.

6.     It puts limits to what the government can do by providing some rights to the citizens that cannot be violated.