Creating the New Constitution: A Guide for Nepali Citizens, International IDEA - 2008

This Book presents a brief history of past constitutions in Nepal from the perspective of constitution making, and a more detailed examination of the substance of the 1990 Constitution. It identifies some of the proposals and controversies surrounding political reform and references the relevant experience of other countries.

The Book should prove useful to members of the current Constituent Assembly, who has been tasked to draft a new Constitution of Nepal, and of civil society as well as constitutional lawyers, the media and those debating the vision that the new constitution should encapsulate and fulfil.

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The contents:

Chapter 1: Form and Purposes of a Constitution

Chapter 2: History of Constitutions and Constitution Making in Nepal

Chapter 3: The 1990 Constitution and Its Collapse

Chapter 4: The Making of the New Constitution: The Interim Constitution's Road Map

Chapter 5: Fundamental Constitutional Principles

Chapter 6: Human Rights as the Framework for Freedom, Diversity, and Social Justice

Chapter 7: Diversity, Rights, and Unity

Chapter 8: Women and the Constitution

Chapter 9: Liberty, Freedom, and Participation

Chapter 10: Human Rights and Social Justice

Chapter 11: Elections and the Electoral System

Chapter 12: Political Parties

Chapter 13: Systems of Government

Chapter 14: Federalism, Devolution, Local Government

Chapter 15: The National Executive

Chapter 16: The National Legislature

Chapter 17: The Judiciary

Chapter 18: National Security and Democracy

Chapter 19: Maintaining the Role of the Constitution