Essay On Malaysian Constitution

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The Federal Constitution of Malaysia is the supreme law in Malaysia and The Federal Constitution is one of the written law. The 1957 Constitution of the federation of Malaya is the basic of this document. After that, it established Malaysia as a Constitution Monarchy having the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as the Malaysia’s Constitution Head of State whose roles are predominantly and ceremonial. There is a doctrine of separation of power dictates in an ideal democracy country there are three organs of the government which consist of Parliament which is to make law, Executive which is to apply law and Judiciary which is interpret the law. Furthermore, the Malaysia parliament is a bi-cameral legislature consist the Senate (Dewan Negara) and the House of Representative (Dewan Rakyat). Thus, the Federal Constitution relates the government and citizenship so that the Federal Constitution is very important in Malaysia. Part II – Fundamental Liberties means that the basic freedom that we need such as freedom of speech, assembly, association (Article 10). As a citizen in a democracy country- Malaysia, we should have the rights of speech in policies and decisions that affect our lives as well as everyone has the rights to assembly peaceably and without arms and the freedom of association means that every …show more content…

After that, Assa claims that was violation of his rights under the Article 5 and Article 9 (Freedom of movement) under the Federal Constitution. Although the Restricted Residence Enactment did violate the Singh’s rights, but did not void it as an unconstitutional law. As a result, it was held that the Restricted Residence Enactment's breach of Singh's rights was constitutional. Therefore, Singh was

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