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1972 Constitution in Retrospect – II By (Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel In this the second part of a three-part article on the 50th anniversary of Sri Lanka becoming a republic, the writer submits that the 1972 Constitution paved the way for constitutionalising majoritarianism in multi-cultural Sri Lanka. The unitary state Although Tamil parties expressed […]
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