We the People of India & the life of a written constitution
“The life of a written constitution - like the life of the law - is not logic ( or draftsmanship), but experience. Past experience of seventy-three years has shown that it is easier to draft a constitution that to work it. In the same subcontinent, Pakistan and Bangladesh had crafted written constitutions at different times, but they were interspersed with periods of martial lawa and civil and military dictatorships. We will never be able to piece together a new constitution in the present day and age even if we tried, because innovative ideas however brilliant and howsoever encouragingly expressed in consultation papers and reports of commissions, cannot give us an ideal constitution . In constitution making, and in working a constitution, there are other forces that can never be ignored, viz., the spirit of humanism, and the spirit of persuasion, of accommodation, and of tolerance.”
- Fali S. Nariman