Commonwealth of India Bill (National Convention, India) 1925

Whereas it is the desire of the Indian People to exercise anew the ancient and recognised right of Self-Government, enjoyed by their ancestors from time immemorial, and to recognise H.I.M. the King-Emperor as their Sovereign and the Protector of their Commonwealth, and to provide for the exercise of that right from the village upwards in each successive area of wider extent, to be earned by character, or public service: