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Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore by Li-ann Thio, Kevin Y.L. Tan

By Li-ann Thio, Kevin Y.L. Tan

This e-book offers a well timed evaluation of the effect of background, politics and economics in shaping the Singapore structure, going past the descriptive narrative, the authors will forged a severe eye over the advancements of the final forty years.

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Council of State’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 27 Mar 1967. Ho Cheng Choon, 25 SPR 14 Mar 1967, col 1258. 19 Lastly, the perceived utility of having a written constitution to foster constitutionalism and the rule of law through establishing oversight institutions, entrenching rights and enforcement processes. 20 This chapter revisits the principles and philosophy of constitutional government informing the Wee Report and examines to what extent they remain embedded in the evolving constitutional experiment driven by the government over the first 40 years of nationhood.

Tan argues that our choice of constitutionalism is only meaningful if the Constitution is ‘understood in accordance with a higher law of morality’. In his chapter, Arun Thiruvengadam critically examines the ‘four walls’ approach to constitutional interpretation by studying how local courts have used foreign judicial decisions in constitutional adjudication; what he calls a ‘trans-judicial influence’ on the courts. Thiruvengadam posits two competing alternative models of constitutional adjudication: the National Formalist model (as practised by states like Singapore, Australia and America); and the Cosmopolitan Pragmatism model (adhered to by judiciaries in India, Canada and South Africa) and argues that there are two distinct periods of ‘trans-judicial influences’.

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