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    "content": "You will allow me to quote Section 47(A) of the Constitution of Kenya which states as follows:- “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Constitution, the sovereign right to replace this Constitution with a new Constitution vests collectively in the people of Kenya and shall be exercisable by the people of Kenya through a referendum in accordance with this section”. So, the ultimate right of the popular sovereign cannot, therefore, be stopped by this third organ of review. The benefit of the work that has preceded this organ cannot also be easily interfered with. That is why there is a requirement for a 65 per cent majority, so that if anything was to be changed, it has the benefit of majority of the Members of this House. Indeed, that is another lesson learnt from the earlier process. The famous or infamous Kilifi Draft came as a result of the fact that simple majority could change the draft. A simple majority of the Members of this House could go ahead and completely change that draft. That draft did not carry a majority of the Members of the National Assembly. The process now requires that a majority of the Members of the National Assembly be carried along if there has to be changes. The road for a new Constitution has been long and torturous as I said earlier. It started before the colonial period. When the Westminster style Constitution was negotiated, indeed, we had a Westminster style Constitution and a Federal State that had regions and regional assemblies. But immediately thereafter, like most other Westminster based constitutions, the Executive immediately started a process where they hunkered"
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