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Shan State Constitution (2nd Draft)
Contents: Foreword for the second draft (A- C)... Preamble... Chapter One Chief Characteristics ... Chapter Two Bill of Rights, Guarantees and Duties ... Chapter Three Member sub-states of Shan State ... Chapter Four Shan State Congress ... Chapter Five Shan State Legislation ... Chapter Six Shan State President ... Chapter Seven Shan State Government ... Chapter Eight Shan State Judiciary ... Chapter Nine Citizenship ... Chapter Ten State Defense and Security Forces ... Chapter Eleven State of Emergency ... Chapter Twelve General Provisions ... Chapter Thirteen Transitional Provisions ... Chapter Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution ... Appendix (1) Shan State Flag (Article 76)... Appendix (2) Shan State Anthem (Article 179) - 3 -... Appendix (3) Structure of Shan State.
The Fifth Draft of Chinland Constitution
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PART ONE:(1)Preamble..(2)Part One:The territory of Chinland..(3)Part Two:Presiding Ideals..(4) Part Three:Individual Rights..(5) Part Four:Individual Duties..(6) Part Five:Language..(7) Part Six:Chin Ethnicity and Culture..(8) Part Seven:Citizenship..(9) Part Eight:Suffrage.. (10) Part Nine:The Legislature (11)Part Ten:The Executive..(12)Part Eleven:The Judiciary..(13)Part Twelve:Administration..(14)Part Thirteen:The Civil Service Commission..(15)Part Fourteen:Impeachment..(16)Part Fifteen:Local Government..(17)Part Sixteen:Finance, Revenue, and Taxation..(18)Part Seventeen:Public Education..(19)Part Eighteen:Public Health..(20)Part Nineteen:Public Welfare..(21)Part Twenty:Culture and Media..(22)Party Twenty-One:State Armed Forces..(23)Part Twenty-Two:State of Emergency..(24)Part Twenty-Three:General Provision..(25)Part Twenty-Four:Inter-State and State-Federal Relations..(26)Part Twenty-Five:Amendment of Constitution..(27)Part Twenty-Six:Ratification..... PART TWO:Suppression of Chin National Movement for Federalism..... PART THREE:(i)The Chin Forum Managing Board (CFMB)... (ii) Chin Forum Chronology of Events
Source/publisher:
The Chin Forum
Format/size:
pdf (1.11 MB)
Date of entry/update:
16 September 2010
Karenni State: Second Draft Constitution
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1. The Emergence of Karenni State Constitution; 2. Introduction; 3. Preamble; 4. The Attributes of the Karenni State; 5. The Basic rights; 6. The Structure of the Karenni State; 7. The Chambers of the State Parliament; 8. The Karenni State Legislation Process; 9. The State Government; 10. The Judiciary; 11. Financial Ordinances; 12. Citizenship; 13. Maintaining Customs its Chieftains; 14. Institution of the Commissions; 15. Amending of the Constitution; 16. National Emergency Law; 17. National Defense; 18. Police Force; 19. National Economy. N. B. the text is undated. We have guessed at a date in 2007.
English, Burmese
Source/publisher:
Karenni State Constitution Drafting Committee
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Date of entry/update:
23 September 2007
Draft Constitution of Future Rahmonya Mon State
Date of publication:
December 2006
Description/subject:
THE FORMATION OF RAHMONYA MON STATE; THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE; THE STATE PARLIAMENT AND THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT; ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE HOUSE OF RAHMONYA MON STATE PARLIAMENT; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RAHMONYA MON STATE AND FEDERAL UNION; RAHMONYA MON STATE GOVERNMENT; LEGISATION (MAKING LAWS); THE JUDICIALSYSTEM OF RAHMONYA MON STATE; PUBLIC SERVANTS; NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATION; WORKERS; HEALTH; FINANCE AND TREASURY; TAXATION AND REVENUES; THE ECONOMY; DEFENCE AND SECURITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; FARMERS (INCLUDING GARDENERS, CULTIVATORS ETC.); ETHNIC GROUPS OR RACES OF RAHMONYA MON STATE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION;
Burmese and English
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Date of entry/update:
18 September 2007
The Second Proposed Draft of Future Constitution of Kawthoolei (Karen State)
Date of publication:
08 August 2006
Description/subject:
Table of Contents: Bill of Rights; General Provisions; Legislature; Executive; Judiciary; Suffrage and Elections; Local Government; Finance and Taxation; Education; Amendments; Miscellaneous.
English, Burmese
Source/publisher:
Karen State Constitution Drafting Committee (SCDC)
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Date of entry/update:
23 September 2007
Shan State Constitution, First Draft
Date of publication:
24 May 2006
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CONTENT Forward; Preamble; Founding Provision; Supremacy of Constitution... CHAPTER [1] Characteristics; Name: Shan State; Supremacy of Constitution; Citizenship; National Flag; National Anthem; National Capital; Nation Seals; A multi-ethnic Nation/State... CHAPTER [2] Bill of Rights; Human dignity; Freedom and Security; Religion and belief; Freedom of expression and information; Freedom of Assembly; Freedom of Association; Freedom of movement and residence; Freedom of trade; Labor Rights; Land and property ownership rights; Right to environmental protection; The right to informed choice; The right to be served by the Public Institutions; Rights Abuse Prevention Measure; Human Rights Promotion Measure; The rights to recall and impeachment; Duty and Responsibility of Citizens and Civil Society Organizations; Duty of Media and its Responsibility; Rights of differently able people; Rights of people to initiate legislation... CHAPTER [3] Legislature... CHAPTER [4] Legislative Powers; National Congress; Legislative Powers of National Congress; Formation of House of Nationalities; Exclusive legislative power; Ordinary Bills; Formation of House of People’s Representatives; Legislative Power of House of People’s Representatives; State Constitution (Constituent State); Special Provision; Formation of the State Legislature; Legislative Power [Const State]; House of National Ethnics; Formation of State House of People’s Representatives; Legislative powers provided for the State House of People’s ; Representatives; Legislative powers provided for the Sub-States and ; Autonomous Regions; Local Government; Municipal of Township Administration; Village Tract Administration; Village Administration... CHAPTER [5] National Executive. Federal Union Executive; Constituent State’s Executive... CHAPTER [6] Judicial Power [Judiciary]... CHAPTER [7] General Provisions; Note: Spread out to other chapters/provisions... CHAPTER [8] The amendment of the constitution.
Source/publisher:
Shan State Constitution Drafting Commission
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Date of entry/update:
18 September 2007
Kachin State Constitution (Draft)
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Contents: Chapter (1) Kachin State; Chapter (2) Fundamental Rights and Freedoms; Chapter (3) Kachin State Legislative Assembly; Chapter (4) Kachin State Government; Chapter (5) Suffrage and Elections; Chapter (6) Judiciary; Chapter (7) Inter-Governmental Relations; Chapter (8) Emergencies; Chapter (9) General Provisions; Chapter (10) Transitional Provisions; Chapter (11) Amendment of the Constitution.
English, Burmese
Source/publisher:
Kachin State Constitution Drafting Committee
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Date of entry/update:
03 October 2007
THE FOURTH INITIAL DRAFT OF CONSTITUTION OF CHINLAND - ခ်င္းအမ်ဳိးသားမ်ား၏ႏုိင္ငံေရးႏွင့္လူမႈေရးေနာက္ခံသမုိင္းအက်ဥ္း
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တခ်ဳိ ႔က အေရွ႔ခ်င္းလဲန္းဟုေခၚဆုိေသာ ခ်င္းအမ်ဳိးသားတုိ႔၏ ဗဟုိဌာနကုိ ဤေနရာ၌ ခ်င္းလဲန္းဟု အဆင္ေျပေစရန္ သုံးစြဲထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ခ်င္းလဲန္းသည္ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ႏွင့္ ခ်င္းတြင္းျမစ္အၾကားရွိ ေျမျပန္႔ႏွင့္ကုန္းျမင့္မ်ားအပါအ၀င္ ပါတ္ကြိဳင္ေတာင္တန္းမွ၊ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ ႏုိက္ဂရုိက္ေရလက္ၾကားအထိ သြယ္တန္းေနေသာ ေတာင္တန္းမ်ားပါ၀င္လွ်က္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ အေနာက္ဖက္တြင္ တည္ရွိပါသည္။ ခ်င္းလဲန္းအျမင့္ဆုံးေဒသမွာ စာရေမတိေတာင္ထိပ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္အထက္ေပ (၁၂၀၀၀) ရွိသည္။ ဒုတိယအျမင့္ဆုံးမွာ ၀တိုရိယေတာင္ထိပ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာ္ျပင္အထက္ေပ (၁၀၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ရွိပါသည္။ အနိမ့္ဆုံးေဒသမွာ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္၀မွ မုိင္ (၁၂၀) ခန္႔ေ၀းေသာ ပလက္၀ၿမိဳ႔ျဖစ္ၿပီး ကုလားတန္ျမစ္၀ ဒီေရမ်ားေရာက္ႏုိင္ေသာ ေနရာျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ခ်င္းလဲန္းသည္ သဘာ၀သစ္ေတာမ်ဳိးစုံျဖင့္ လွပစိမ္းလန္းေနေသာေဒသျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ဤ သဘာ၀သစ္ေတာႏွင့္ သယံဇာတပစၥည္းမ်ား စီးပြားေရးျဖစ္ထုတ္လုပ္ႏုိင္ေရးကုိ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေကာင္စီ၊ ဆုိရွယ္လစ္အစုိးရႏွင့္ လက္ရွိစစ္အစုိးရတုိ႔က အဟန္႔အတားျပဳလ်က္ရွိသျဖင့္ ခ်င္းလဲန္သည္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျပည္နယ္မ်ားအနက္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈအနိမ့္ဆုံး ျပည္နယ္တခုျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ...
English, Burmese (ျမန္မာဘာသာ)
Source/publisher:
The Chin Forum
Format/size:
pdf (434 KB)
Alternate URLs:
http://www.chinforum.org/cfconstitutions/4th_cc_eng_bur.pdf (Burmese&English)
http://www.chinforum.org/cfconstitutions/4th_chin_con.pdf (English)
Date of entry/update:
15 September 2010
Arakan State Constitution (The First Proposed Draft)
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Preamble: The Constitution of Arakan State is instituted for the preservation of a united and durable Arakan Nation; and for every citizen to be fulfilled in justice, life, liberty, prosperity, respect, dignity, kindness, tradition, and faith... Part One: Bill of Rights; Part 2: Formation of the State;Part 3: Provision of citizenship; Part 4: Provision of Voting Rights and Creation of Constituency: Part 5: Administrative power; procedure for the transfer of power; Part 6: Legislative Power; Part 7: Judicial; Part 8: State Government Administration.
Burmese, English
Source/publisher:
Arakan State Constitution Drafting Committee (Arakan National Council)