Uganda: Government Can't Sponsor Constitution Amendment As It's Not Party to It

6 November 2017
opinion

The tumult and riots, which have characterised the debate on removal of the presidential age limit from the Constitution, suggest that we have not internalised the principles of constitutionalism as developed in mature democracies.

The term constitutionalism involves two components namely a Constitution and a body of laws and regulations made under that Constitution.

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