Too Many Amendments

Farrel — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:07:00 -0500

I have to agree with Tony Leon, there have been too many amendments to the Constitution of South Africa. Although I don’t think it’s ‘under threat’ per se’, the number of amendments passed so far do seem to make the constitution less ‘written in stone’ than it should be.

As an example it took the US 162 years to pass 14 amendments to their constitution. It should take us about 12. Perhaps that is because of the differing nature of the each constitution. The US constitution is a document defining what government may or may not do, while ours is one that tells the people what thet may or may not do.

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Too Many Amendments