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constitution, it will be necessary to negotiate a revision 
      of its treaty agreements, so far as this may be required in the 
                          new situation.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
D. The constitution-making body shall be composed as follows, 
      unless the leaders of Indian opinion in the principal communities 
     agree upon some other form before the end or hostilitie
 
                                                            
 
 
Immediately upon the result being known of the provincial 
      elections which will be necessary at the end of hostilities, 
      the entire membership of the Lower Houses of the Provincial Legislatures 
      shall, as a single electoral college, proceed to the election 
      of a constitution-making body by s system of proportional representation. 
      This new body shall be in number about one-tenth of the number 
                    of the electoral college.               
 
                                                            
 
 
The Indian States shall be invited to appoint representatives 
      in the same proportion to their total population as in the case 
      of representatives of British India as a whole, and with the 
              same powers as British Indian members.        
 
                                                            
 
 
K. While during the critical period which now faces India 
      and until the new constitution ca be framed, His Majesty's Government 
      must inevitably bear full responsibility for the defense of India, 
      they desire and invite the immediate and effectual participation 
      of the leaders of the principal sections of the Indian people 
      in the counsels of their country, of the Commonwealth and of 
      the United Nations. Thus they will be enabled to give their active 
      and Constructive 
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