Building the People’s Constitution: Your Responsibility

The Fiji Constitution Commission's aim is that this publication will be read by individuals who want to understand and make a contribution to the constitution making process. It is also intended to be used for civic education – programmes of education that have the aim of enabling people to understand the nature and role of the Constitution and the guiding principles, and to participate effectively in the constitutional process.

The Commission hopes that this publication will help all the people of Fiji to understand:

• reasons for making a new consitution
• the process of making the constitution
• people's participation in making the constitution
• the experience of previous constitutions
• basic principles for the constitution
• positive and negative aspects of different options for principal features of the constitution.

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