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Thus, as has been shown above, in order to cope
with the religious sentiment, an element (religious
invocation), which directly goes against the spirit
and aspiration of our liberation war and which was
inserted in the constitution by a martial law regime
in 1979, was retained and legalised by the Parliament
through
the
Thereby,
the
Constitution
principle
of
Fifteenth
secularism
Amendment.
was
totally
compromised and thus buried the spirit of original
constitution and liberation war, as was espoused in
the 1972 constitution.
Likewise, the following amendments made by the
martial
law
regime
through
the
Proclamations
(Amendment) Order, 1977 (Proclamation Order No. 1 of
1977), which were not in the 1972 constitution, were
retained by the Parliament through the Constitution
(Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011, which may read thus:
[In
Article
42,
for
clause
(2)
the
following shall be substituted, namely:
-
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