The National Convention (texts of Principles)
These documents contain the texts of the "Principles laid down to serve as bases in prescribing State Fundamental Principles ("the 104 principles") as well as the "detailed basic principles" elaborated later.
Individual Documents
| Title: | | The Fundamental Principles and Detailed Basic Principles (English) |
| Date of publication: | | 10 September 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | The 15 chapters of principles adopted by the National Convention which the SPDC has said will form the basis of a new constitution. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" via Khin Kyaw Han |
| Format/size: | | pdf (546K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 September 2007 |
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| Title: | | Detailed Basic Principles of the formation of the Judiciary |
| Date of publication: | | 01 April 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | Full texts extracted from "The Burma Press Summary". These may be read in the 44 documents in "The National Convention (preparations and Proceedings)" at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1314&lo=d&sl=0
which also contain the records of much of the debate leading up to the announcement of the "Principles". See also the full archive of "The Burma Press Summary" at http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=burmaps&ct=0 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" |
| Format/size: | | html (33K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 February 2004 |
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| Title: | | Detailed Basic Principles of the formation of the Executive |
| Date of publication: | | 31 March 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | Full texts extracted from "The Burma Press Summary". These may be read in the 44 documents in "The National Convention (preparations and Proceedings)" at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1314&lo=d&sl=0 which also contain the records of much of the debate leading up to the announcement of the "Principles". See also the full archive of "The Burma Press Summary" at http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=burmaps&ct=0 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" |
| Format/size: | | html (70K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 February 2004 |
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| Title: | | Detailed Basic Principles of the formation of the Legislature |
| Date of publication: | | 29 March 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | Full texts extracted from "The Burma Press Summary". These may be read in the 44 documents in "The National Convention (preparations and Proceedings)" at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1314&lo=d&sl=0 which also contain the records of much of the debate leading up to the announcement of the "Principles". See also the full archive of "The Burma Press Summary" at http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=burmaps&ct=0 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" |
| Format/size: | | html (38K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 February 2004 |
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| Title: | | Detailed Basic Constitutional Principles |
| Date of publication: | | 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | decided by the National Convention. The principles cover the Legislature, the Executive (including the Head of State) and the Judiciary. This is most likely an unofficial translation - the other versions in this section are official translations. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via the Burma Lawyers' Council) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | THE DETAILED BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR PRESCRIBING SELF-ADMINISTERED AREAS |
| Date of publication: | | 11 April 1995 |
| Description/subject: | | Full texts extracted from "The Burma Press Summary". These may be read in the 44 documents in "The National Convention (preparations and Proceedings)" at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1314&lo=d&sl=0 which also contain the records of much of the debate leading up to the announcement of the "Principles". See also the full archive of "The Burma Press Summary" at http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=burmaps&ct=0 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" |
| Format/size: | | html (10K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 February 2004 |
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| Title: | | Detailed Basic Principles of the chapters 'The State', 'The State Structure' and 'The Head of State' (original version) |
| Date of publication: | | 10 April 1994 |
| Description/subject: | | Two English versions of these chapters exist -- the main URL carries the text as it appeared in "The New Light of Myanmar", and transcribed by "The Burma Press Summary". These may be read in the 44 documents in "The National Convention (preparations and Proceedings)" at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1314&lo=d&sl=0 which also contain the records of much of the debate leading up to the announcement of the "Principles". See also the full archive of "The Burma Press Summary" at http://public.ibiblio.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=burmaps&ct=0while ...The text in the Alternate URL is the version currently being circulated in Rangoon. There are some differences. The chapter headings of both texts are taken from from the amended version. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" and an SPDC-circulated pamphlet |
| Format/size: | | html (29K, 59K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/DBP-state(2).htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 February 2004 |
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| Title: | | The Principles laid down to serve as bases in prescribing State Fundamental Principles ("the 104 principles") |
| Date of publication: | | 17 September 1993 |
| Description/subject: | | The main link is to the Principles as published in "The New Light of Myanmar". The Alternate URL is to a January 2004 speech on the SPDC's "roadmap" by the Burmese Deputy Foreign Minister, with the Principles annexed. There are one or two differences between the two texts. N.B. These are the basic principles. The detailed principles, elaborated from 1994-1996 are in other documents in this section. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SLORC (National Convention) via "The New Light of Myanmar" |
| Format/size: | | html (37K). 156K |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/KMWroadmap104.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 31 January 2004 |
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