"Make the implicit explicit: Affirming right to vote in the Constitution would pre-empt the possibility of abuse by future govts" by Jack Tsen-Ta LEE

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Make the implicit explicit: Affirming right to vote in the Constitution would pre-empt the possibility of abuse by future govts

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Jack Tsen-Ta LEE, Singapore Management University

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News Article

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Publication Date

2-2009

Abstract

There are sound reasons to set out explicitly and entrench in the Singapore Constitution the right to vote and key elements of the way elections are held. While a future government might not remove them entirely, it might derogate from them to the extent that they become unrecognizable.

Discipline

Asian Studies and
Constitutional Law

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Singapore Mediacorp Press

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International

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Jack Tsen-Ta LEE. "Make the implicit explicit: Affirming right to vote in the Constitution would pre-empt the possibility of abuse by future govts" Today (2009) p. 28 ISSN: 7237-4163
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jacklee/21/