The Status Of Constituent Power In Constitutional Reform In Kenya

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION ....................................................................................................................................... i

APPROVAL ............................................................................................................................................. ii

DEDICATION ........................................................................................................................................ iii

ACKNOWLEGMENT ............................................................................................................................ iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................... v

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................ vii

LISTS OF CASES ................................................................................................................................. viii

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 PROPOSAL AND LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................................... !

1.1 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 1

1.2 Statement of the Problem .................................................................................................................... 2

1.3 Justification for the Study .................................................................................................................... 2

1.4 Objectives of the Study ....................................................................................................................... 2

1.5 Hypotheses .......................................................................................................................................... 3

1.6 Research Questions ............................................................................................................................. 3

1.7 Methodology ....................................................................................................................................... 3

1.8 Literature Review ................................................................................................................................ 3

1.9 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ...................................................................................................... 6

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 HISTORY OF CONSTITUTION MAKING IN KENYA .................................................................. 7

2.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 7

2.2 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF A CONSTITUTION .................... 8

2.3 CONSTITUTION AND CONSTITUTIONALISM ......................................................................... 10

2.4 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE KENYAN CONSTITUTION ....................................... !!

2.4.1 Practice Before 1963 ...................................................................................................................... 11

2.4.2 The Independence constitution ....................................................................................................... l3

2.4.3 The Post Independence Constitution .............................................................................................. 15

2. 5 THE EFFECTS OF KENYANS DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS ............................................ 17

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN KENYA: THE NEED FOR A DEMOCRATIC

CONSTITUTION .................................................................................................................................... 20

3.1 REASONS FOR CONSTITUTION INSTABILITY IN KENYA .................................................... 20

3.2 POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE ................................................. 22

3.3 SILENCES, TENSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE CONSTITUTION ......................... 24

3.3.1 The Preamble .................................................................................................................................. 24

3.3.2 Presidential Power .......................................................................................................................... 25

3.3.3 The Place of the Official Opposition .............................................................................................. 26

3.3.4 Coalition Government and Government of National Unity ........................................................... 26

3.3.5 Political Parties ............................................................................................................................... 26

3.3.6 The Civil Service ............................................................................................................................ 26

3.3.7 Parliamentary Sovereignty ............................................................................................................. 27

3.3.8 The Problem of Public Law ............................................................................................................ 27