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us at all; but the fact is that it is. But it seems to me that in order to do away with the community practising communalism being in office these two remedies are worth while, namely, to give the power to the Governor to override and, secondly, to appoint small committees who can make representations either to the Ministry or to the Governor.
Now, Sir, we have inherited a tradition. People always keep on saying to me : “Oh, you are the maker of the Constitution”. My answer is I was a hack. What I was asked to do, I did much against my will.
Shri P. Sundarayya: Why did you serve your masters then like that ?
Mr. Chairman: Order, order.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: But, Sir, we have inherited, on account of our hatred of the British, certain ideas about democracy which, it seems to me, are not universally accepted. We inherited the idea that the Governor must have no power at all, that he must only be a rubber stamp. If a Minister, however scoundrel he may be, however corrupt he may be, if he puts up a proposal before the Governor, he has to ditto it. That is the kind of conception about democracy which we have developed in this country.
Shri M. S. Ranawat (Rajasthan) : But, you defended it.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: We lawyers defend many things. (Interruptions.) You should listen seriously to what I am saying, because this is an important problem.
Sir, as I said, we happened to develop a theory of democracy, simply because of our opposition to the British. The British must go and the British must have no power. A Governor must have no power. Let me cite two cases.
One case which I propose to cite is about the Constitution of Canada and I refer to section 93 of that Constitution. As everyone in this House knows, Canada, like ourselves, is a billingual place. A part of it speaks English; a part of it speaks French. And what is worse still is that the English-speaking people are Protestants; the French are Roman Catholics. In