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Conclusion

THIS BOOK IS intended only to present a provisional map of some of the pressing issues that arise for a Pakistani public within the operations of a public law and constitutionalism.

What is apparent in this synoptic account is that many of the claims that may be made for the rule of constitutionalism, those that are reflective of ideal understandings, in which a ready public proclaiming ‘we the people’ harnessed their will to a normative order, will fail to account for both text and intentionality in Pakistan’s various constitu­tional orders. Although the language of success and failure has in parts been used, the book has not intended to provide a measure of whether or not constitutionalism has been effective. Inclusion and exclusion are written into and influence the shape of constitutional ‘cover’ in Pakistan; much of this is due to the inheritances of an imperial order in which plural spaces, some defined by indirect rule, were intrinsic to the maintenance of control. The successes that are cited are those where some space has been cleaved against the aggrandising claims of a state and a larger state system where the exception is often the rule.

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Source: Aziz Sadaf. The Constitution of Pakistan: A Contextual Analysis. Hart Publishing,2018. — 343 p.. 2018
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