Racial politics and imperatives and the constitutional special position of the indigenous Malays in a new society: Asserting interests and the non-contestation of rights in Singapore’s communitarian constitutionalism

• Main Author: TAN, Eugene K. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Law and Race; Law and Society; Race and Ethnicity
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2406; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99318001402601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=INK&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=INK&query=any,contains,Politics%20and%20constitutions%20in%20Southeast%20Asia&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Thischapter comprises three sections. In the first section, I examine how Article152 of the Singapore Constitution recognizes the Malays as Singapore’sindigenous people. This constitutional recognition, however, did not and hasnot resulted in the provision of special rights to the Malay-Singaporeans...