Upholding the Constitution for all

IT is a marvellous thing when words written at a nation’s birth are able to protect future generations of citizens.

On Sept 12,1959, preceding the inaugural sitting of the Dewan Rakyat, the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong in his royal address said: “We are pulling a switch which starts two dynamos of democracy – our Constitution and our Parliament – to serve the political needs of this new nation now and of generations of Malayans not yet born.”