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of the world hardly any nations had been able to
achieve
independence
through
a
war
of
liberation
within such short time. It had been possible because
‘we the people’ wanted it. It is ‘we the people,’ who
established
“Bangladesh”
and
it
“is
a
unitary,
independent, sovereign Republic to be known as the
People's Republic of Bangladesh” (article 1). This
“we the people” has been more elaborately and more
expressively
acknowledged
in
article
has
been
7
as
quoted
above.
A
creative
approach
adopted
in
our
constitution while organizing the power structure of
the State. Clause (2) of article 7 make it abundantly
clear
that,
“This
constitution
is,
as
the
solemn
expression of the will of the people, the supreme law
of the Republic, and if any other law is inconsistent
with this constitution that other law shall, to the
extent of the inconsistency, be void.”
(emphasis
added) Now a very natural question may arise that in
the
constitution
responsibility
to
who
declare
has
a
law
been
void
given
in
case
the
it
conflicts or is ‘inconsistent’ with article 7 of the