As written constitution is a compact document like a book, it has various parts, parts have various chapters, chapters have various articles.
Like a book contains appendices to explain things and provide extra info, constitution contains various schedules.
Important parts and schedules of Constitution
| Part 1 | Union and its territories (Art 1 – 4) |
| Part 2 | Citizenship (Art 5 – 11) |
| Part 3 | Fundamental rights (Art 12 – 35) |
| Part 4 | DPSP (Art 36 – 51) |
| Part 4A | Fundamental duties (Art 51A) |
All the schedules are Imp.
| 1st | Names of states and UTs |
| 4th | Allocation of seats in RS |
| 5th | Schedule and tribal areas |
| 6th | Administration of Tribal Areas in Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram |
| 7th | Union, state and concurrent list |
| 8th | Official language (22) |
| 9th | Laws saved from judicial review (added by 1st amendment) |
| 10th | Anti Defection Law (52nd amendment) |
| 11th | 29 matters related to Panchayat (73rd amendment) |
| 12th | 18 matters related to municipality (74th amendment) |
Titbits:
- Original constitution contained only 8 schedules
- Matters added to 9th schedule after 24th April 1973 (Kesavananda Bharati Case) are not immune to judicial review (I.R. Coelho case)
Preamble: Learn it by heart
Titbits:
- Based on Objective resolution drafted and moved by Nehru
- 42nd amendment 1976 added three new words – socialist, secular and Integrity
- Justice – Social, Economic and Political (3 kind)
- Liberty – thought, expression, belief, faith and worship (5 kind)
- It was enacted after the rest of the constitution
- Non-justiciable
- Neither source of power nor authority
- It can not be amended but basic features can’t be amended
Supreme Court judgements related to Preamble
- Berubari Union Case – key to minds of the makers of constitution but not part of the constitution
- Kesavananda Bharati Case – Part of the constitution
Preamble titbit Point 8 has a typing error
It should be :
It can be amended but basic features can’t be amended
pls amend at point No 8 of Preamble , that It can be amended .(may be a typographic error)
Prelims titbits at point no.2 ,it is wrong that by 42nd ammendment act 3 new words were added– Socialist,secular and republic…It should be INTEGRITY not REPUBLIC…..