Per Chief Justice S.M. Sikri, the basic elements of the Constitutional structure were — “supremacy of the Constitution, republican and democratic form of government and sovereignty of the country, the secular and federal character of the Constitution, demarcation of power between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, the dignity of the individual (secured by the various freedoms and basic rights in Part III and the mandate to build a welfare State contained in Part IV, and unity and integrity of the nation.”