Constitution

Since its independence, in its 231-year history, the United States has amended its constitution 27 times.

Maybe the United States isn't such a good example. Let's take a country with similar historical and political background to Malaysia’s.

In Singapore, the constitution has been amended only 4 times, the last being in 1991.

In contrast Malaysia's constitution has been amended 42 times, consisting of not less than 650 individual amendments (as of 2005). [1]

Which really makes you wonder, how much respect do we have for our constitution?


1 ^ DR SHAD SALEEM FARUQI. Ahmad, Zainon & Phang, Llew-Ann (Oct. 1, 2005). The all-powerful executive. The Sun