The passage of a generation: Revisiting the report of the 1966 constitutional commission

Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution

Volumn 9780203885789, Issue , 2008, Pages 7-49

  Thio, Li ann ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203885789     Document Type: Chapter

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