Constitution demands get ever more bloated
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The Nitirat group of young Thammasat University law lecturers (or Enlightened Jurists, as they call themselves) demanded the inclusion of a political amnesty for red-shirt protesters in the new Constitution. Don't we have enough proposals to include this
The original US Constitution consisted of four pages of handwritten paper. If we take Nitirat’s proposal seriously, wouldn’t our new Constitution become as thick as the library edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary? What good would it do to have a Constitution that size? Seriously, what is “constitution” in your dictionary?
Hence, “enlightened” should be changed to “addled” in this case.
Vint Chavala
Lamphun
