Constitution of the Rebublic of Vietnam
At 10:10 AM 4/16/2004 -0700, Jared Cahners wrote:
Anyone out there know where I might be able to find acopy of the constitution of the Republic of Vietnam from 1967? Book, online, any form is fine. I found one pretty ugly one online (pasted to a newsgroup message), but that's it so far...
Thanks
Jared Cahners
From sdenney@uclink4.berkeley.edu Thu May 27 12:31:45 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:03:52 -0700
From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Constitution of the Rebublic
The Indochina Center of U.C. Berkeley has the proceedings of the RVN Assembly leading up to the 1967 Constitution along with several other documents, donated by Arthur Blaustein, a New York lawyer who advised the RVN on creating a constitution.
The text of the constitution can be found at a number of libraries around the country, including Univ. of Minnesota law librarie, Duke, Rutgers, Cornell, New York public library, Brigham Young and Univ. of Washington law library, Temple, Univ. of Texas, etc. (not here at UC Berkeley library, but I presume in the Indochina Archive files).
There is also a book analyzing the 1967 constitution, A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE 1967 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, by Nguyen-Thai Lai (Saigon, 1969) at the Harvard library, which I noticed in an RLIN search.
- Steve Denney
From jhannah@u.washington.edu Thu May 27 12:32:11 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Hannah <jhannah@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Constitution of the Rebublic
Jared and all,
I found reference to a 1967 publication of the Constitution in English from the Ministry of Information, but not the full text. Yuo might find it in the OCLC Worldcat datadabe, if you have access through your library. Also, here are a couple of things:
I found an interesting study on Vietnamese law from the US Army written in 1975. It does not have the text of the constitution, but it does list a number of laws from the RVN in the appendix, and it has some interesting legal analysis:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Law-War/law-fm.htm
Also, President Johnson's remarks on the New Constitution: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Law-War/law-fm.htm
Joe Hannah