As regards the word `Union’ if Prof. Shah had referred to the footnote on page 2 of the draft Constitution, he would have found that “The Committee considers that following the language of the Preamble to the British North America Act,1867, it would not be inappropriate to describe India as a Union although its Constitution may be federal in structure”. I have the Constitution of British North America before me. Therein it is said: “Whereas the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, have expressed a desire to be federally united”, but subsequently the word “federal” is dropped, and only the word “Union” retained. Similarly, in our Constitution the emphasis should be on the word `Union’ rather than on the word `Federal’. The tendency to disintegrate in our body politic has been rampant since the dawn of history and if this tendency is to be curbed the word `federal’ should be omitted from this Article.
