1st Edition

A History of the 1957 Federation of Malaya Constitution

By Joseph M. Fernando Copyright 2025
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Fernando examines important aspects of the drafting of 1957 Federation of Malaya constitution related to the system of governance, division of legislative and executive powers, the conceptualisation of citizenship and the roles of the judiciary and election commission. The book sheds new light on the balances that the Reid Commission sought to embed in the constitution and the historical... Read more

1. Introduction

2. The System of Government

3. Division of Legislative and Executive Powers

4. Federal-State Financial Relations

5. Citizenship

6. The Other Voices

7. The Judiciary

8. The Election Commission

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Biography

Joseph M. Fernando was formerly an associate professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Malaya (2000–2018) and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Malaysian political and constitutional history and the history of modern Southeast Asia. He was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Department of History, Harvard University, in 2004/2005, and Chapman Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, in 2004, and is presently an independent researcher. He has authored several books on Malaysian constitutional and political history and published widely in international academic journals.