V.K. Nanayakkara: A good Third Republican Constitution is the need of the day

Constitution versus despotism

V.K. Nanayakkara, former Secretary to Prime Minister and Secretary to many government ministries, has started his book ‘In Search of a New Sri Lankan Constitution,’ launched two weeks ago, with a quotation from Thomas Babington Macaulay, the 19th century British poet, historian, essayist and philosopher. Macaulay has said that “a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”