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The constitution which came into effect on 4 February 1948 when Sri Lanka became an independent sovereign state was no more than the Soulbury constitution of 1946 with certain consequential changes. The latter in turn was, with a number of not unimportant modifications, based on the Draft Scheme of 1944 framed by the Ceylonese board of ministers functioning under the Donoughmore constitution (Sessional Paper XIV of 1944).
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Ibid. Also Sir Charles Jeffries, Sir Oliver E. Goonetilleke (London, 1969), pp. 155–6.
See J. L. Fernando, Three Prime Ministers of Ceylon — An ‘Inside Story’ (Colombo, 1963), pp. 39–40.
See B. P. Peiris, ‘Memoirs’, in the Sunday Mirror, 20 February 1966. B. P. Peiris was secretary to the cabinet at this time.
For a critical assessment of this action see S. A. de Smith, The New Commonwealth and its Constitutions (London, 1964), pp. 84–5.
See Sir John Kotelawala, An Asian Prime Minister’s Story (London, 1956), p. 130.
For a detailed description see my ‘Public Administration in Ceylon’, in S. S. Hsueh (ed.), Public Administration in South and Southeast Asia (Brussels, 1962), pp. 199–240.
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Wilson, A.J. (1974). Constitution and Government. In: Politics in Sri Lanka 1947–1973. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01544-3_6
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