{"id":83931,"date":"2018-12-05T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83931"},"modified":"2018-12-05T06:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:28:54","slug":"approving-19a-ignoring-people-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/05\/approving-19a-ignoring-people-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"APPROVING 19A IGNORING PEOPLE SOVEREIGNTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is crystal clear that 19A has embarked on the &#8220;curtailment of some of his powers which may impact on the sovereignty of the people without asking them, would amount to a breach of sovereignty&#8221; as clearly identified by N A DE S AMARATUNGA in Lankaweb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The mandate to curtail President&#8217;s power are vested with the PEOPLE, the PEOPLE have not delegated the authority to the Legislature to decide on their behalf.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 State power emanates from the people of the State. The &#8221; sovereignty has resided in the people as a whole as organized in a changeable and changing government. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Constitution was made by the PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Constitution is controlled by the PEOPLE.\u00a0 Therefore Constitution is <strong>not sovereign<\/strong> because it is controlled by the PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Supreme Court directive as to how to seek amendments to the Constitution, ( in this instance curtailment of Powers of the Executive President of Sri Lanka), the Legislature ignored Supreme Court directive and took into their hands of exercising the <strong>will of the people by themselves<\/strong>, which has not been delegated to the Legislature by the People.<\/p>\n<p>However there are exceptions for occasional dicta or amendments, but the doctrine of sovereignty always RESIDE IN THE PEOPLE.\u00a0 The Legislature has acted on implied authority, which they did not possess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is crystal clear that 19A has embarked on the &#8220;curtailment of some of his powers which may impact on the sovereignty of the people without asking them, would amount to a breach of sovereignty&#8221; as clearly identified by N A DE S AMARATUNGA in Lankaweb. The mandate to curtail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}