_____________________________________________ Subject: Sheikh Mujib: A people's dictator I think Sheikh Mujib's biggest gift is "fourth amendment". He declared himself a president without election and without term limit. A president for life! Life could be very short. If only he knew. Pls read following from a research paper. The fourth amendment has completely changed not only the body, but also the philosophy and character of the original constitution. Articles protecting citizen rights, liberties and freedom are now riddled with limitations, exceptions and qualifications. Parliament Passed the Fourth Amendment without any debate. All 294 members voted in favor. It took less than an hour, to change the physical and philosophical character of the whole constitution. This amendment: (1) changed the system of government, (2) empowered the President to appoint Ministers who are not Parliament Member. (3) made the Prime Minister into the President and Members of the Parliament was deemed to be elected by the people, (4) stated that parliament members elected today shall continue for a term of five years, (5) no term limit was placed on the President, (6) Made the impeachment procedure to remove the President, but made the procedure so difficult that it would make impeachment nearly impossible, (7) stated that the impeachment of the President will need the assent of two-thirds members and the impeachment will need three-fourths members of the Parliament, (8) restored the absolute veto power of the President; (9) created the post of a Vice President, (10) gave the President power to appoint a Vice President, (11) stated that a Council of Ministers will be responsible to the President, (12) Curtailed the independence of the judiciary and took away the power of the Judicial branch to enforce fundamental rights, (13) President to appoint and remove the Chief Justice, High Court Judges, Judicial Officers and magistrates; (14) abolished all Political Parties and introduced one party system; (15) politicized civil servants, (16) created Compulsory Village Cooperative Society, (17) curtailed fundamental rights, liberties and freedom of the Press, (18) Increased the number of districts to 61 and empowered the President to appoint Governors in each district. The fourth amendment is in effect a new constitution altogether. This amendment effectively eliminated all signs of "separation of power". It centralized all power, without any checks and balances, in the hands of the President. It made the Parliament a "rubber-stamp body", a body made up of "elective representatives" in theory but "unrepresentative" in reality. | 
