🗓️ DAY 4: FEATURES OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION
⭐ Major Features (Must Memorize)
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🔵 1. Longest Written Constitution
👉 India has the longest Constitution in the world
Originally: 395 Articles, 8 Schedules
Now: 450+ Articles, 12 Schedules
🟢 2. Federal System (with Unitary Bias) 🔥
👉 Power divided between:
Centre
State
📌 But Centre is stronger (IMPORTANT)
➡️ That’s why: “Quasi-federal”
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🟡 3. Parliamentary Form of Government
👉 Borrowed from UK
Features:
President = Nominal head
Prime Minister = Real executive
Council of Ministers responsible to Parliament
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🔴 4. Secular State
👉 No official religion
👉 Equal respect to all religions
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🟣 5. Sovereign, Socialist, Democratic, Republic
👉 Directly from Preamble
Sovereign → Independent
Socialist → Welfare state
Democratic → People elect govt
Republic → Elected head
