Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
11-2014
Abstract
While there are important principles fundamental to the Singapore Constitution, they do not form a legally unchangeable “basic structure”. Even if it were possible to identify a substantive “basic structure”, its exact content would be indeterminate and we would be left with only broad, unhelpful truisms. Instead, the true safeguards against potential undesirable constitutional amendments lie in democratic political processes.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Public Law and Legal Theory
Publication
Singapore Law Gazette
First Page
1
Last Page
10
ISSN
1019-942X
Publisher
LexisNexis Asia Pacific
Citation
ONG, Benjamin Joshua.
The basic structure doctrine in Singapore: A reply. (2014). Singapore Law Gazette. 1-10.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2452
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