{"id":174210,"date":"2025-08-19T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=174210"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:18:07","slug":"the-preamble-declares-india-to-be-a-sovereign-socialist-secular-and-democratic-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-preamble-declares-india-to-be-a-sovereign-socialist-secular-and-democratic-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Preamble declares\u00a0India to be a Sovereign,\u00a0 Socialist, Secular and Democratic Republic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Consider the following statements\u00a0 :<br>(i)\u00a0 The Preamble\u00a0 to\u00a0 the India Constitution\u00a0 is enforceable\u00a0 in a court of\u00a0 law.<br>(ii)\u00a0 The Preamble\u00a0 declares\u00a0India to be a Sovereign,\u00a0 Socialist, Secular and Democratic Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<br>(A) Both (i) and (ii)<br>(B) only (i)<br>(C) Only (ii)<br>(D) Neither (i) nor\u00a0 (ii)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer and Explanation:<br>Answer: Option (C)<br>The Preamble is not directly enforceable in the courts.\u00a0It serves as an introduction and guiding principle for interpreting the Constitution.<br>Preamble of the Indian Constitution consists of 6 key phrases: &#8220;We, the people of India,&#8221; &#8220;Sovereign,&#8221; &#8220;Socialist,&#8221; &#8220;Secular,&#8221; &#8220;Democratic,&#8221; and &#8220;Republic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the following statements\u00a0 :(i)\u00a0 The Preamble\u00a0 to\u00a0 the India Constitution\u00a0 is enforceable\u00a0 in a court of\u00a0 law.(ii)\u00a0 The Preamble\u00a0 declares\u00a0India to be a Sovereign,\u00a0 Socialist, Secular and Democratic Republic. Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?(A) Both (i) and (ii)(B) only (i)(C) Only (ii)(D) Neither (i) nor\u00a0 (ii) Answer and Explanation:Answer: Option (C)The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5245],"tags":[5375],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-174210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apsc","tag-apsc-gs-q1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174212,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174210\/revisions\/174212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174210"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=174210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}