An Analysis: 2013 Fiji Government Constitution

• Part 1: Executive Summary
• Part 2: The Constitution-Making Process
• Part 3: Chapter-By-Chapter Analysis

The analysis covers the process leading to the assenting of the Fiji Government Constitution, providing interpretation of the document section by section and highlighting areas of possible weaknesses and strengths measured against the international standards and other comparative constitutions of democratic states.

At the same time it is important to include Fiji’s own experiences in constitution-making and ask some critical questions that have plagued our own experiences in democratisation.

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