- A Constitution helps serve as a set of rules and principles that all personsin a country can agree upon as the basis of the way in which they wantthe country to be governed.

- Set of basic rules

- Type of government

- Limits the powers of government

- Aspirations of society

- Fundamental Identity

- Background

- Constituent Assembly

- Task of Framing

- Amendments

- Preamble

- Main features

- Directive Principles

- Mode of Framing

- Substantive Provisions

- Balanced Institutional Design

- Principle of Deliberation

- Inheritance of Nationalist struggle