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Constitutional Development in Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Extract

The origin and character of Ethiopian central institutions can be understood by reference to at least four main factors: the religious history of the country; its geography; its internal wars; and the advent of Islam, which cut it off from the World outside for several centuries, and affected the course of its history.

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Research Article
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1966

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page 75 note 1 Margery Perham, op. cit., p. 48.

page 75 note 2 Plowden, W., Travels in Ethiopia, 1868, pp. 456–9.Google Scholar

page 76 note 1 Art. 50.

page 77 note 1 Art. 48.

page 77 note 2 Art. 49.

page 77 note 3 Art. 31.

page 77 note 4 Art. 32.

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page 77 note 6 Art. 35.

page 77 note 7 Gardiner, “La juridiction concernant les étrangers en Ethiopie”, Revue general de droit international public, Paris, vol. 44, p. 90. See also Farago, , Abyssinia on the eve, 1935, p. 104.Google Scholar

page 78 note 1 Fire Kenafir, pp. 223–228.

page 78 note 2 Perham, op. cit., p. 97.

page 78 note 3 See note 1, above.

page 79 note 1 Between 1955 and 1960 the then Minister of Defence presided.

page 79 note 2 At the beginning the administrative units now called Taklai Ghizats (governorates-general) were called Awraja Ghizats (Districts). With the abolition of the federal status of Eritrea in 1962 and the elevation of the district of Bale in Harar to the status of a Taklai Ghizat, there are now 14 Taklai Ghizats.

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page 82 note 1 This uneasy federation was abolished in November, 1962.

page 83 note 1 Arts. 76 and 77 of the revised constitution; also Proclamation No. 152 (1956). On the first election held under the revised constitution see Ethiopia Observer, vol. 1, No. 7, London, 1957.Google Scholar

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page 85 note 1 Arts. 34 and 46 of Constitution, 1931.

page 87 note 1 Cf. R. A. Sedler, “The Chilot jurisdiction of the Emperor of Ethiopia, a legal analysis in historical and comparative perspective”, [1964], F.A.L., 59.

page 88 note 1 Federal (Judiciary Power), Proclamation, 1952.

page 88 note 2 Attorney-General v. Lishi Sophia (1959), Federal Supreme Court (unreported).