Supreme legal document of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008)
Created
9 April 2008
Ratified
29 May 2008
Date effective
31 January 2011
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The Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ) is the supreme law of Myanmar. Myanmar's first constitution adopted by constituent assembly was enacted for the Union of Burma in 1947.[1] After the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, a second constitution was enacted in 1974. The country has been ruled by military juntas for most of its history.
The 2008 Constitution, the country's third constitution,[2] was published in September 2008[3] after a referendum, and came into force on 31 January 2011.[4] Under this current constitution, the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) retain significant control of the government, even before their coup of 2021. 25% of seats in the Parliament of Myanmar were reserved for serving military officers. The ministries of home, border affairs and defense were headed by a serving military officer.[5][6] The military also appointed one of the country's two vice presidents.[7] Hence, the country's civilian leaders have little influence over the security establishment.[5][6]
^"Constitution of 1947 - Myanmar Law Library". www.myanmar-law-library.org (in French). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
^"Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008)" Archived 16 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine full text in English from Burma Library, last accessed 5 October 2010
^"Online Burma Library > Main Library > Law and Constitution > Constitutional and parliamentary processes > National constitutions, draft constitutions, amendments and announcements (texts)". Burmalibrary.org. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
^"၂၀၀၈ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ" [2008 Constitution]. Constitutional Tribunal of the Union of Myanmar (in Burmese). March 2018. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပြဋ္ဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ ၂၀၀၈ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေသည် ပထမအကြိမ် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်စတင်ကျင်းပသည့် ၃၁-၁-၂၀၁၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် စတင်အာဏာတည်ခဲ့သည်။
^ ab"Why is army still in Myanmar parliament?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
^ abPhil Robertson (12 November 2015). "Can Aung San Suu Kyi control Myanmar's military?". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
^"Managing the defence and security council". Mmtimes.com. 28 March 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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