51 key to community nation building. unless community can all A community those who assimilate remains belong themselves to in a the this mysterious chemistry of ‘weness’, the moment they are elevated to this stage they become a ‘nation’. And our Founding Fathers very rightfully understood, realized and recognised this quintessential element of nation building and this is why they wrote the first sentence of the constitution “We, the people of Bangladesh, having proclaimed our independence on the 26th day struggle of for independent, March, 1971 national and, through liberation, sovereign People’s a historic established Republic the of Bangladesh.” These words mean that people are the source of all supreme power; People are the true achiever of the sovereignty and hence the constitution. The members of the Constituent Assembly were all people’s representatives. The preamble, therefore, indicates that the legal basis of our constitution people-the ultimate source of all power. is the