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===Constitution=== {{Main|Constitution of Singapore}} The Constitution of Singapore is the supreme law of [[Singapore]]<ref name="Republic">{{cite web | title= The Republic and the Constitution | work=Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore website | url=http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=1999-REVED-CONST&doctitle=CONSTITUTION%20OF%20THE%20REPUBLIC%20OF%20SINGAPORE%0a&date=latest&method=part&segid=931158659-000167#931158659-000174 | access-date=22 April 2006}}</ref> and it is a [[codified constitution]]. The constitution cannot be amended without the support of more than two-thirds of the members of parliament on the second and third readings.<ref name="Republic"/> The president may seek opinion on constitutional issues from a tribunal consisting of not less than three judges of the [[Supreme Court of Singapore|Supreme Court]]. Singaporean courts, like the courts in Australia, cannot offer [[advisory opinion]] on the constitutionality of laws.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Judiciary | work=Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore website | url=http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=1999-REVED-CONST&doctitle=CONSTITUTION%20OF%20THE%20REPUBLIC%20OF%20SINGAPORE%0a&date=latest&method=part&segid=931158660-002294#931158660-002388 | access-date=22 April 2006}}</ref> Part IV of the constitution guarantees the following:<ref>{{cite web | title=Fundamental Liberties | work=Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore website | url=http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=1999-REVED-CONST&doctitle=CONSTITUTION%20OF%20THE%20REPUBLIC%20OF%20SINGAPORE%0a&date=latest&method=part&segid=931158659-000271#931158659-000271 | access-date=22 April 2006}}</ref> #[[individual liberty|liberty of a person]] #prohibition of [[slavery]] and [[forced labour]] #protection against [[Ex post facto law|retrospective criminal laws]] and [[double jeopardy|repeated trials]] #[[equal protection]] #prohibition of [[Exile|banishment]] and [[freedom of movement]] #[[freedom of speech]], [[freedom of assembly|assembly]] and [[freedom of association|association]] #[[freedom of religion]] #[[right to education]] The sections on liberty of the person and freedoms of speech, assembly, movement, association and religion are all qualified by allowing Parliament to restrict those freedoms for reasons including national security, public health, and "public order or morality". In practice, the courts have given complete discretion to the government in imposing such restrictions. Part XII of the constitution allows the [[Parliament of Singapore]] to enact legislation designed to stop or prevent [[subversion (political)|subversion]]. Such legislation is valid even if it is inconsistent with Part IV of the constitution. The [[Internal Security Act (Singapore)|Internal Security Act]] (ISA) is a legislation under such provision. In 1966, [[Chia Thye Poh]] was detained under the ISA and was imprisoned for 23 years without trial. Afterwards, he was placed under conditions of house arrest for another nine years.
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