Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If the anti-poll tax amendment will become the 24th Amendment to the Constitution [April 6], what was the 23rd Amendment. I missed hearing about it.
After seven tense weeks of bickering over a constitution, Kenya's African leaders flew home from London last week hoping to prepare their country for independence in 1963. Through deft compromise, Britain had won African acceptance of its constitutional proposals, and persuaded both major political parties to form a...
In fact, the constitution proposes substantial concessions to Ngala's minority KADU party. By contrast with KANU, which is overwhelmingly backed by Kenya's six most powerful tribes-notably the powerful Kikuyu-KADU seeks support from the Masai, Baluhya and other tribes that are numerically smaller but occupy...
However, Kenyatta's KANU seems certain of working control in Kenya's two-house federal parliament, enough control in fact to rewrite the London-made constitution its own way once the white chiefs leave and the Africans get full power.
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government and third member of the panel, also attacked the McCarran Act, calling it "unwise" and "bad public policy." He disagreed, however, with Davis' contention that internal security laws are violations of the Constitution.