The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday December 22 1919

The New Draft Constitution.— The sovereignty of the Republic of China is vested in the entire body of the people." This declration does not exist in the constitutions of the United States of America (which is a fedeation of sovereign States) or of France but it is Jound in those of Belgium Chile and the United States of Mexico. [...] It may however be stated that the relations of the Chinese people to representative government are more on the level of the citizens of the Mexican rpublic than of the American. [...] In regulating the relations between one province and another or between the oentral government and the provinces the decision lies with the Senate and not with the Supreme Court ; moreover if the President's warning to a turbulent or recalcitrant province is diregarded% he may with the approval and cosent of the Senate dismiss the Governor or dissolve the provincial Assembly. [...] The theory of the constitution is that the President is the Chief executive of the rpublic—this is the American practice ; but at the same time he " has no initiative and simply concurs with what Parliament or the Cabinet as the case may be sees fit to decide "—this is the ceremonial President of France. [...] Judges are to be appointed by the President but the appoinpent of the Chief Justice of the &preme Court (and of him alone) is subject to the approval of the Senate.