anything here today that may consign our future generations to the furies of a behind destiny. May be, may God forbid it, but some day, perhaps even within our lifetimeextremely troublous times as we live in-a political adventurer, a Yanshikai, or a Bachcha-i-Sakao may find a chance to impose his will and authority on this State. He may find a justification for it in this Preamble. To people of our State, he may justify his claim on the clause in it that refers to the delegation of the Almighty's authority to the State through its people. He has only to forge a further- link and get it delegated through the State to himself and declare that he is the Ruler of Pakistan, anointed by his Maker.
Besides, Sir, shall we not be prudent to avoid the deification of the State that the Preamble implies? In recent history, Hitler did it. But I am sure, Sir, the Honorable Mover of this Resolution found no merit in that act of Hitler's. Nor the world very much appreciated it. And at the hour when we have come so very near to the rest of the world, we, in this House, shall not be wise to ignore it.
Prof. Raj Kumar Chakraverty: Sir. I beg to move:
“That in the paragraph beginning with the words This Constituent Assembly’ after the words ‘independent’ the word 'democratic' be inserted.”
So that with the amendment, the paragraph will read thus:
“This Constituent Assembly representing the people of Pakistan resolves to frame a constitution for the sovereign, independent, democratic State of Pakistan.”
Sir, I take it that this paragraph states the character of the constitution that we shall have. In the first paragraph of the Preamble we have been told that the authority which God has delegated to the State of Pakistan for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust, and this paragraph proposes to give us the character of the constitution. It says that the constitution would be a sovereign constitution, it will be independent, but the word 'democratic' is not there. I want to add the word “democratic” in this connection, just after the word 'independent'. My arguments will be very short. I consider the description of the constitution in this paragraph is not all perfect. It is not the complete description. The word 'democratic' should have been here.. While telling about the constitution, we should tell the public and the world that the constitution or the form of Government that we shall have will be of this kind or that kind. Whether the Government will be ruled by one man or it will be ruled by a few persons or the Government will be in the hands of many persons, we should state clearly. It may be monarchy; it may be despotism; it may be oligarchy; or it may be democracy. I believe that our Government will be a democratic one, but that is not stated here. That is my complaint and that is why I move the amendment.
Sir, to day, there is a great unrest throughout the world and you know the reasons of this unrest. One of them is that the common men-ordinary people-have no voice in the administration of their Government. They are the producers of the means of our livelihood. They are the workers on the fields and in the factories and unless voice is given to them in the affairs of the State, this unrest of the world will not subside. Up till now, of all the forms of Government that have been evolved, democracy with all its
