Constitution of the Republic of Sri Lanka (1972)

Constituent Assembly of Ceylon / Sri Lanka · Government of Sri Lanka (1972)

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The first republican constitution, adopted unilaterally by the United Front government via a Constituent Assembly that the Federal Party and Tamil Congress walked out of when their amendments (federal devolution, parity of language, religious neutrality) were rejected. Section 6: 'It shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster Buddhism.' Section 7: Sinhala as the official language. The 1972 Constitution is the empirical anchor for narrowing step 6 — the moment the Tamil polity was constitutionally re-foreclosed after the 1965 Dudley–Chelvanayakam Pact collapse.

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