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But it is also true that whatever .the framers of the constitution borrowed from different source's,
they modified it .with a view to avoiding the faults that have been disclosed in its working and
adopted it to the existing conditions and needs of the country.
India is a democracy. It means that sovereignty rests with the people of India. They govern
themselves through their representatives elected on the basis of universal adult franchise.
Besides, the constitution confers on Indian citizens some fundamental rights and which are
considered to be the essence of a democratic system.
India is a republic as unlike Britain there is no hereditary element in the Indian Governmental
system. The President, the highest official of the state, is elective. The institution of monarchy
which obtained in the states before Independence was abolished.
Although India is a sovereign republic, yet she continues to be a member of the Commonwealth
of Nations with the British Monarch as its head. Her membership of the commonwealth does not
compromise her position as a sovereign republic. The Commonwealth is an association of free
and independent nations. The British monarch is only symbolic head of the association.
There is also reservation of seats for Anglo-Indian community in the House of the People and in
some State Assemblies.