Living together in peace and harmony
From Shad Faruqi
AS a student and teacher of constitutional law, I nurture many dreams about our nation’s basic law. The commemoration of our 68th Merdeka anniversary and the approaching 62nd Malaysia Day encourage me to speak out about two fervent hopes.
First, I pray that our society’s low level of constitutional literacy could be remedied, and the Constitution could be restored to the pedestal on which it was placed when Malaya began her tryst with destiny.
A second hope is that our Rukun Negara could be incorporated into our Federal Constitution as a stirring Preamble to our supreme law.
Constitutional literacy
In the years ahead, the curricula of our institutions of learning, from secondary to tertiary levels, and the training modules at institutes like Intan and Ilkap could incorporate a course to disseminate knowledge of the foundational principles of our Constitution.
The Certificate in Legal Practice course could, likewise, impart to aspiring lawyers the basic…
