![]() ![]() The task of constitutionalism was a morality that transcended positions and disagreements on particular issues indeed, its strength was that it gave a framework for having a common institutional life despite disagreements. ![]() When the Constitution was enacted, there was a self-conscious sense that in writing a text, India was finding a way to resolve major substantive debates and disputes over norms and values. But the backdrop of those substantive aims contains two meta-aims of the Constitution, as it were, that often go unremarked. ![]() The project does, in some ways, further all these goals. For others, it was a political project, an expression of the fact that the Indian people were finally sovereign and dedicating themselves to the universal values of liberty, equality, and fraternity. For its most prominent historian, Granville Austin, the project was about “social revolution". The Indian constitutional project can be described in many ways. ![]()
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