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    "id": 42724,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/42724/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the principal purpose of this Bill is truly historic because it is intended to provide for a legislative framework to operationalise Article 163 of the Constitution. With the enactment of this law, we will have provided for the operation of the Supreme Court as the final judicial authority on this land. Again, we are giving the Kenyan people a Supreme Court capable of, among other things:- (i) asserting the supremacy of the Constitution and the sovereignty of the people of Kenya; (ii) providing authoritative and impartial interpretation of the Constitution; (ii) developing a rich jurisprudence that respects Kenya’s history and traditions, and facilitates her social, economic and political growth; (iv) enabling important constitutional and other legal matters, including matters relating to the transition from the former to the present constitutional dispensation, to be determined, having due regard to the circumstances and history as well as cultures of the people of Kenya; (v) improving access to justice; and, (vi) providing for administration of the Supreme Court and related matters."
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