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Title:Constitutional Reform in Uganda: The New Approach
Authors:Furley, OliverISNI
Katalikawe, JamesISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:96
Issue:383
Period:April
Pages:243-260
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:constitutions
constitutional amendments
Politics and Government
Law, Human Rights and Violence
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/723860
Abstract:This article examines the constitutionmaking process in Uganda, from the days when Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) conducted its guerrilla campaign, declaring its intention to reestablish democracy with a new constitution. The NRM considered that Uganda's cycle of violence in the past sprang from the lack of a good constitution and much store was placed on constitutionalism as a panacea. Accordingly, a Constitutional Commission was set up in 1988 to consult the people and make proposals for a new constitution. The article examines how far this was a genuine attempt to consult widely, or whether the government 'guidelines' were intended to steer the discussion along predetermined lines, and at a deliberately slow pace. The article evaluates some of the salient features of the new constitution and concludes that it contains some valuable improvements on previous constitutions, but also safeguards and preserves the existing ideology of the NRM as far as possible. Notes, ref., sum.
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