By Li-ann Thio, Kevin Y.L. Tan
This booklet offers a well timed overview of the effect of background, politics and economics in shaping the Singapore structure, going past the descriptive narrative, the authors will forged a severe eye over the advancements of the final forty years.
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Rev. LQR LRC (Const) Mal. R. MDA Melb. U. L. Rev. MHA Mich. L. Rev. U. L. Rev. Georgetown Law Journal Government Parliamentary Committee Group Representation Constituency Harvard Human Rights Journal Harvard Journal of Law and Public policy Harvard Law Review Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly High Court High Court of Australia Hong Kong Law Journal Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest Human Rights Act International Bible Students Association International and Comparative Law Quarterly International Journal of Constitutional Law Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Internal Security Act Judicial Commissioner Jemaah Islamiyah Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law Jehovah’s Witnesses King’s Bench Law and Social Inquiry Loyola Law Review Law Quarterly Review Law Reports of the Commonwealth, Constitutional Division Malaya Law Review Misuse of Drugs Act Melbourne University Law Review Minister of Home Affairs Michigan Law Review Malayan Law Journal Mixed Member Proportional Member of Parliament Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Islamic Religious Council of Singapore) Non Constituency Member of Parliament New Economic Policy Nominated Member of Parliament National University of Singapore New York University Law Review Abbreviations OJLS OUCLJ PAP PCMR PEC PEMA PERC PKMS PM PP PPSO PSC QB RSIA SA SAcLJ San Diego L.
The party securing the most votes would be allocated seats in proportion to the number of seats won. 90 The economic development imperative Constitutional rights limit state power. Bearing in mind the imperative of maintaining a ‘strong state’, the government in 1965 specifically excluded the Article 13 property rights clause of the Malaysian Constitution from operating in Singapore. This was to avoid judicial challenges to the 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 EW Barker, 25 SPR, 17 March 1967, col 1389, at 1431–2.
R. MDA Melb. U. L. Rev. MHA Mich. L. Rev. U. L. Rev. Georgetown Law Journal Government Parliamentary Committee Group Representation Constituency Harvard Human Rights Journal Harvard Journal of Law and Public policy Harvard Law Review Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly High Court High Court of Australia Hong Kong Law Journal Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest Human Rights Act International Bible Students Association International and Comparative Law Quarterly International Journal of Constitutional Law Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Internal Security Act Judicial Commissioner Jemaah Islamiyah Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law Jehovah’s Witnesses King’s Bench Law and Social Inquiry Loyola Law Review Law Quarterly Review Law Reports of the Commonwealth, Constitutional Division Malaya Law Review Misuse of Drugs Act Melbourne University Law Review Minister of Home Affairs Michigan Law Review Malayan Law Journal Mixed Member Proportional Member of Parliament Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Islamic Religious Council of Singapore) Non Constituency Member of Parliament New Economic Policy Nominated Member of Parliament National University of Singapore New York University Law Review Abbreviations OJLS OUCLJ PAP PCMR PEC PEMA PERC PKMS PM PP PPSO PSC QB RSIA SA SAcLJ San Diego L.