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  Compare the Preambles to the Constitutions of the United States of America, India and South Africa. (i) Make a list of ideas that are common to all these three.  (ii) Note down at least one of the major differences among them.  (iii) Which of the three makes a reference to the past?  (iv) Which of these does not invoke God?

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                  In the first quotation, Gandhiji strived for an India in which there should be no higher or lower class of people and all communities should live in perfect harmony. In the second quotation, BR Ambedkar said. We are going to enter a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality but in social and economic life, we will have inequality." In the third quotation, Jawaharlal Nehru said about the ending of inequality, "the service of India means the ending of poverty, ignorance, disease and inequality of opportunity."