The Constitution forms the basis on which subsequent narratives about strangers and members have taken hold and nurtured. The Ethiopian Constitution is the only one which refers to “peoples,” in the plural, as the sovereign. It recognizes the “unconditional” rights of these nations (peoples) to complete the process and establish themselves as full-fledged countries if they so wished. The current Ethiopian Constitution is even more stringent in its requirements in relations to certain articles of the Constitution. While the American Constitution requires the concurrence of 38 of the 50 States, the Ethiopian Constitution requires unanimity of the states in relation to Chapter Three of the Constitution within which one finds Article 39.

Source: Ethiopian News September 18, 2020 04:07 UTC