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Burma's Constitution (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an attempt to study and interpret the Constitution of the Union of Burma which has now passed its tenth year. A constitution read outside the context of constitutional history is incomplete, and I have, therefore, tried to trace the developments which culminated in the constitution; then study its important features with reference, where necessary, to the background in which they took shape and form; and, while studying how the constitution has been working, touch lightly on contemporary events and trends. It is a vast canvas I am trying to cover and what I am able to draw on it would inevitably be sketchy. But I do not write as a historian whose focus is on detail in a narrow area. Rather, having dug and gathered the facts, I trace their sweep in history. The details I willingly and happily leave to the historians, hoping only that my study will be of some use to them, if only as a target for their learned criticism. Some of the events and people I describe are still too near, and a clear perspective is therefore difficult. What is nearest appears biggest, and I often find it tempting to see and accept that Burma's history as a new independent nation began with the students' strike of 1936 or the resistance movement during the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401188906
• Artikelnr.: 44183037

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Story of the Constitution.- I. Annexation and British Rule.- II. War and Japanese Occupation.- III. Liberation and Fulfilment.- II. The Constitution at Work.- I. Form of State.- II. Fundamental Rights.- III. Peasants and Workers.- IV. Directive Principles of State Policy.- V. The President.- VI. Parliament.- VII. The Union Government.- VIII. The Union Judiciary.- IX. The States.- X. Amendment of the Constitution.- XI. International Relations.- XII. General Provisions.- XIII. Transitory Provisions.- Epilogue.- Postscript.- Appendices.- I. Opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown on Annexation of Burma.- II. The constitution of Burma under Japanese occupation.- III. The Panglong Agreement, 1947.- IV. Draft constitution approved by the AFPFL convention, May, 1947.- V. Members of the constitution drafting committees, and staff, Constituent Assembly.- VI. Prime Minister U Nu's motion in the Constituent Assembly to adopt the constitution September 24, 1947.- VII. The Constitution of the Union of Burma, with amendments.- VIII. The Constitution Amendment Act, 1951.- IX. Chronology of Events.