WHO GIVES THE CONSTITUTION ITS PURPOSE? MOPA, JUDICIAL POWER AND THE SEARCH FOR INTERPRETIVE DISCIPLINE IN GHANA
BY: DARLINGTON AMOFA, ESQ.* In thinking about the place of purpose in constitutional interpretation, and particularly the difficult boundary between giving meaning to an authoritative text and giving that text a meaning of one’s own, I am reminded of an ancient injunction in the Book of Deuteronomy: “Ye shall not add unto the word which […]