A genuine constitutional reform exercise begins, not with the Constitution and what it has or does not have, but with an analysis of the existing political system and an identification of its problems and predicaments. Such an analysis would identify the problems; would demonstrate why they are indeed problems; would demonstrate that the source of such problems lay in inappropriate or ineffective constitutional provisions and out of all of this propose constitutional changes logically designed to “cure the malady”. This was the inescapable obligation of the Government in bringing the Constitution (Amendment) Bill to Parliament. It did nothing of the kind. It spoke glibly of deepening the democracy and never once why and how the democracy needed deepening or indeed essayed any definition of what the democracy should look like. Michael Harris
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:25:32 +0000
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