[2] The autochthony, or home grown nature of constitutions, give them authenticity and effectiveness.
[3] It was important in the making and revising of the constitutions of Bangladesh, India,[4] Pakistan, Ghana,[5] South Africa, Sierra Leone,[6] Zambia[7] and many other members of the British Commonwealth.
One of the implications of Kelsen’s theory was that the basic norm (German: Grundnorm) of the imperial predecessor’s Constitution would continue to be at the helm of the legal system of the newly liberated former colony despite the legal transfer of power, precisely because the transfer of power was recognised as 'legal' by the Constitution of the imperial predecessor.
It was under this Plan that the Constituent Assembly was envisaged and charged with the mandate of drafting the new Constitution for India.
[4] The framers introduced two deliberate procedural errors in the enactment of the Constitution of India in violation of the Independence Act: In doing so, the framers not only repudiated the source which authorised them to enact the Constitution but it was also a denial, albeit symbolic, of Indian independence being a grant of the imperial Crown-in-Parliament.