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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to plead with the other side of the House that this is a matter in which having some kind of consensus would be good for the House, rather than taking a bipartisan position on a matter which is procedural. You will indulge me to go to a little bit of history. However, before I go into that, the second President of the United States of America (USA), Mr. Adams, said that there was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. In fact, he said this before the American Constitution. He said that the reason democracies fail is where majorities are used as a basis of tyranny, so that instead of approaching issues in a sensible and reasonable manner, there is also the application of the sense of immediacy; that we must do this now and not later. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other founding father of the American Constitution, Mr. Madison, said that democracies in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. I am saying this because we had a democratic Constitution when Kenya got Independence in 1963. However, over time, because of the immediacy of the moments, we found ourselves enacting legislation that, indeed, turned Kenya into a despotic regime instead of becoming a democracy. Democracy that does not deal with matters in a manner that is dignified and with decorum and consultation ends up becoming a mobocracy. Kenya is slowly becoming a mobocracy; that because of numbers we are prepared to give up the gains of yesterday. If you read the Constitution, a notice should normally be due notice; sufficient and adequate notice. The Constitution says that you do not count the day in which an The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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