Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION: THE G.O.P. Administration, despite integrity and the good will of the President, has provided little vision or leadership. It has been indecisive, uncertain and hesitant. The people had lost confidence in it.
Buoyed by the astonishing Moslem turnout (nearly 3,000,000) and the whopping 96% yes vote for his new constitution in September's referendum, De Gaulle had offered the Moslems 46 of the 67 seats from Algeria in the new National Assembly in Paris. He hoped that among the...
In the year and a half since his inexperienced land of 65 tribes and assorted chiefs and chiefdoms won its independence, Ghana's U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has shown little tolerance for those who oppose him. But one thing has kept him from having his way: a...
"Quite frankly," he told Parliament, "my government accepted the constitution as drawn up in the United Kingdom with grave misgivings." He introduced a bill that would enable the government to amend key clauses of the constitution, not by a two-thirds majority in both Parliament and the regional assemblies, but...
Opposition Leader K. A. Busia objected that without the two-thirds safeguard "the constitution will become a fragile document on which no one can rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete...