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    "id": 69051,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/69051/?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": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to merely add to what my two learned friends have said. If you look at Article 259 on page 157, I want to be persuaded that this Constitution has borrowed from judicial decisions from America to India to Europe by saying that this Constitution shall be interpreted in a manner that promotes the purposes, values, and principles. I think that it is very important that this country understands something. In constitutional interpretation, there are two schools of thought. There is the activist approach which is now provided here to promote the purposes, values and principles. There is also the other one which I do not even want to describe. It is the conservative approach. It says that you read into the words exactly what they say. Therefore, I am guided and I want you to urge that the point of order raised – it is legitimate – is one that you should overrule so that we comply with Article 259(1). This is because as we sit here, we do not have implementation mechanisms for the Constitution. We cannot even bring Bills. We have several outstanding Bills."
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