The mind of the makers of the Constitution of India is reflected in which of the following?

 a) The Preamble 

b) The Fundamental Rights 

c) The Directive Principles of State Policy 

d) The Fundamental Duties 

Solution: 

• The mind of the makers of the Constitution of India is reflected in the Preamble. 
• The Preamble to a Constitution embodies the fundamental values and the philosophy, on which the Constitution is based. 
• It embodies the aims and objectives, which the founding fathers of the Constitution enjoined the polity to strive to achieve. 
• The Preamble embodies the basic philosophy and fundamental values–political, moral and religious–on which the Constitution is based. It contains the grand and noble vision of the Constituent Assembly, and reflects the dreams and aspirations of the founding fathers of the Constitution. 
• In the words of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer, a member of the Constituent Assembly who played a significant role in making the Constitution, ‘The Preamble to our Constitution expresses what we had thought or dreamt so long’. 

Ans: (a)