Malaysians, get to know your Constitution


A COLLEAGUE requested me to give a guest talk to her students on “Constitution, Law & Society”. I began by pointing out that as with all laws, the relationship between the constitution and society is one of interdependence. They shape each other in innumerable ways.

More than other fields of law, a constitution reflects the dreams, demands, values and vulnerabilities of the body politic.

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