A major reason, after efforts of years and the expenditure of billions of shillings, a new constitution has eluded us is that influential sectors of society (parliamentarians and churches) have shown ...
On Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her new book, “We the People: A History of the U.S.
Dr. Lepore is a professor of history and law at Harvard and the author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s ...
The story of the making of India’s Constitution, as usually told, begins in Delhi. As the clock struck 11 on December 9 1946, the story goes, the Constituent Assembly convened for the first time in ...
Our Constitution is no accident of history. It is the product of a glorious freedom struggle against apartheid, that crime against humanity, and it is a product of a vision for an enlightened future, ...
Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.
Two weeks ago, on July 16 to be precise, the self-described Eminent Patriots, in conjunction with the Nigeria Political Summit Group, convened a three-day National Summit on “The Future of Nigeria’s ...
In February 2024, the National Assembly inaugurated committee for the review of the 1999 Constitution with a view to amending some areas of the constitution. The 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as every ...
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal lauded the farsightedness of the framers of the Constitution on Saturday for making a ...