Posted on December 31st, 2020
by
Senaka Weeraratna
The making of Sri Lanka’s
Constitution from the time of the Soulbury Commission (1944) has been an
exercise that had completely ignored the Dharmic religious background and
civilizational history of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is a nation state but is
also an unique civilizational state with a set of Dharmic values the nature of
which was completely overlooked by the framers of all the National
Constitutions from the time of the first (Soulbury) Constitution.
The same thing happened in India,
more or less.
In Sri Lanka, the making of the
original Constitution was rushed without paying due consideration to the
Posted on December 31st, 2020
by
Senaka Weeraratna
The making of Sri Lanka’s
Constitution from the time of the Soulbury Commission (1944) has been an
exercise that had completely ignored the Dharmic religious background and
civilizational history of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is a nation state but is
also an unique civilizational state with a set of Dharmic values the nature of
which was completely overlooked by the framers of all the National
Constitutions from the time of the first (Soulbury) Constitution.
The same thing happened in India,
more or less.
In Sri Lanka, the making of the
original Constitution was rushed without paying due consideration to the