Supreme law with an extreme flaw



Imagine legislating discrimination, as well as entombing it in a autarchic law of a land. The Americans deliberate each black person as three-fifths of a person for a purposes of apportioning legislators based upon competition approach before gerrymandering came in to vogue.

Malaysia is no different when it comes to a legitimate interests of alternative races. The word "other" presupposes a graphic as well as singular competition set utterly detached by inherent fiat. Passing a law loaded with bias to great one particular racial competition is a critical flaw, especially when it is woven in to a fabric of a autarchic law called a constitution.

tunku abdul rahman merdeka stipulation 261004One can usually consternation what a Reid Commission was educated to do in a early 1950s whilst drafting as well as creating a brand new constitution for Malaya. The meditative behind what constituted Malaya, as well as after Malaysia, will regularly haunt Malaysians, especially meaningful which no Malayan was invited to sit in a Reid Commission nonetheless you know there were several eminent local lawyers in a afterwards fledgling Malaya.

Now accessible to a public, as well as occupying a protected mark as well as space in ancient times in a atmosphere-controlled British Museum, have been letters created to Westminster from a colonial secretaries of Malaya, Fiji as well as alternative British colonies with fertile soils agreeable infinite spoils, inundated with tales, illustrations as well as examples of a racial races who have been loathe to work underneath a upon fire midday sun.

The British colonial merc! antile w atchdogs, as well as lapdogs, realis! ed which alien labour was a usually unsentimental resolution to feat as well as extract a remunerative pecuniary promises of tin, rubber, as well as alternative changed commodities which attracted British investments, as well as a attendant avarice, to Malaya.

Confidential communications to Westminster also indicate which a Malay sultans were not too vehement about a prospect of arising citizenship papers to alien Chinese as well as Indians who may, by sheer tough work as well as numerical superiority, seize a mercantile as well as amicable opportunities to their obvious, as well as well-deserved, benefit.

Double speak

After a trouncing of a British at a hands of a bloody Japanese Imperial Army, as well as a not-so-heroic return of a British underneath a protection of a British Military Administration (BMA), a Malay sultans were in a improved bargaining in front of to sign a deal a BMA could not exclude in sell for a great of citizenship to alien labourers.

The concede came in a form of Article 153 which has regularly been a treacherously unforgiving thorn in a Malaysian flesh notwithstanding a denunciation in Article 153(1) where doublespeak about a special in front of of a Malays as well as alternative Sabah as well as Sarawak locals included "the legitimate interests of alternative communities...".
And then, as a remarkable subdued expression of an about-face, Article 153(2) drops a phrase "legitimate interests of alternative communities...".
The final spike in a coffin of legislated discrimination appears in Article 153(9) when Parliament is taboo from making any law which restricts a special reservations for Malays as well as locals of Sabah as well as Sarawak.

The interests of alternative communities, according to a extreme smirch in a autarchic law, quickly evaporates. you consternation if a Reid Commissioners were drinking poor toddy, or smoking defective weed, when! they su spicion this through, as well as ultimately writing it in stone.

One can suppose what would occur if a inherent challenge is mounted in court currently to determine which will see a emergence of another day - Article 153(1) or Article 153(2)?

But, you may be judicially trumped by Article 10(4) which beefs up Article 10(2)(a) cleverly designed to discourage anyone from doubt a special privileges accorded to a Malays underneath Article 153. The command of equality in 153(1) is quickly camouflaged in to a looseness for discrimination in 153(2).

civil servants 090904Curiously, Article 153(5) stipulates which this Article does not deviating from a supplies of Article 136 which benevolently states which "All persons of whatever competition in a same class in a service of a Federation shall, theme to a conditions as well as conditions of their employment, be treated with colour impartially." Really?

The Eighth Schedule (Article 71), Part you (18), echoes a same sentiment, as if impulsively, to state employees. More doublespeak, or someone tasked with a pow! ers of inherent amendments missed a import of these provisions? Whatever competition is a abuse word for non-Malays underneath a ramifications of a autarchic law, no thanks to a second budding minister.

As of Dec 27, 2007, a sovereign constitution has undergone more than 200 inherent amendments. The amendments to a law have been devastatingly loathsome.

The difference "judicial power" is jettisoned for good. The law is no longer a co-equal in a pattern of a three organs of state. Judicial autonomy is, of course, a good motto if not a clich when noticed by a Malaysian prism of freedoms as well as liberties.

Naturally, Article 153, however, is untouched, as well as still in a primitive condition it was crea! tively p enned to barricade more than affirmative action.

Article 153 after system of administration change


So, who is to take shortcoming for this? The British for more advanced as well as legislating discrimination, or future Malaysian legislatures which cared not to consider a demonstrate will of a rakyat without demonstrate orders from a executive?

But, who, or what, is a senior manager according to a autarchic law? Article 39 puts a onus upon a Agong as a one vested with senior manager authority. No discuss of Umno, or a budding minister, in this context. Somebody has to take a blame as well as shortcoming so which a workable resolution can be put in place, if at all which is in a meditative of conscience-stricken Malaysian parliamentarians.
you consternation if a system of administration change post-GE13 will amend, or commend, Article 153. Will amending Article 153 turn a Malaysian quandary with a great measure of a counter-dilemma to house a legitimate interests of all races?

The Malaysian experiment with competition has curiously survived this prolonged since as a people you exercise a live-and-let-live perspective without political overtones or persuasion. Growing up in Kuala Kangsar as well as Ipoh in a 50s as well as early 60s, you super-naive immature people never encountered competition compared problems. But move in politics, as well as a constitution, you have a powder keg itching for a trigger.

NONEAs you review Article 9(1) regarding a breach of banishment, you cannot help but consider of Chin Peng (right). He received an OBE from a British for his Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army exploits, which greatly helped a cause of liberty.

Thereafter, he took upon a British Empire, as well as was labele! d a comr ade militant whilst a Irish militant problem was flourishing in a British backyards with a honest promise of never starting away. If usually you had military clout then, how would a Malayan armed forces rubbed a Irish militant problem? Again, a autarchic law upon a alternative side of a same coin looks askance as an extreme flaw.

I suppose a Malayan constitution was suspicion of as well as created in a English language. If denunciation be a dress of thought, review Article 10(b) where peaceful assembly is granted to adults "without arms."

You consider which is cute. you consider it is an acute expression of a hudud edict. Maybe a Reid Commission could not consider up a word "firearms". Cheap toddy, or defective weed. Maybe both.

JUDGE NAVIN-CHANDRA NAIDU is a lawyer based in Utah, United States.
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