Question

Enabling provisions have the support of the preamble to our Constitution. Please explain in an easy way?

Answer 1

            Bouiver defines a Constitution as 'the fundamental law of State, directing the principles upon which the Government is founded and regulating the exercise of the sovereign powers directing to what bodies and persons these powers shall be confined and the manner of their exercise". It is said to be "an autobiography of a power relationship." Gilchrist defines a constitution to be "that body of rules or laws written or unwritten, which determines the organization of the Government, the distribution of powers to the various organs of Government and the general principles on which these powers are to be exercised". Perhaps the smallest definition of the Constitution is given by H. Fincer. He defines Constitution as the "System of fundamental political institution of a country." Dicey says, "All rules which directly or indirectly affect the distribution of the sovereign power in the state make up the Constitution of the State."

            According to Bryce, "Constitution is a set of established rulers embodying and enacting the practice of Government". Lewis observes, "The term constitution signifies the arrangement and distribution of the sovereign power in the community or form of Government."

            According to Woolsey, "Constitution is the collection of principles according to which the powers of the Government, the rights of the governed and the relation between the two are adjusted." According to Leacock, "Constitution is the form of Government." "Constitution," according to Jellinek, "is a body of judicial rules which determine the supreme organs of the States, prescribe their mode of creation, their mutual relation, their sphere of action and finally the fundamental place of each of them in relation to the State."