• Updated to reflect new judicial pronouncements and legislative developments.
• Discusses calls for the greater sharing of the nation’s wealth and revenue.
• Considers the viability of the decentralization of powers to State Governments.
• Analyses the constitutional issues of when and how confidence in the Government is to be determined, and when its leader may be dismissed.
• Discusses judicial decisions on religious issues such as conversions, divorce and custody of children, and on the preclusion of non-Muslim lawyers from appearing in the Syariah Courts.
• Explains the court’s more liberal stance on the locus standi of individuals to challenge the Government’s breach of constitutional duties.
• Examines recent judicial decisions acknowledging private citizens’ rights to seek legal remedies to enforce Malaysia Agreement and constitutional safeguards for Borneo States

KEY FEATURES

• Gives clear explanation of the distribution of sovereign  powers between the Federation and the States.
• Contains extensive discussion of the powers of Parliament to amend the supreme law and of the guiding principles of the Constitution.
• Provides analytical and insightful commentary, with regular reference to cases, legislation and background source.
• Written by author with in-depth knowledge experience in managing Federal-State relations.