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 The, Preamble no doubt enumerates great concepts' embodying the

ideological aspirations of the people but these concepts are


particularised and their essential features delineated in the various
provisions of the Constitution. It is these specific provisions in the body
of the Constitution which determine the type or democracy which the
founders of that instrument established; the quality and nature of
justice, political, social and economic which they aimed to realise, the
content of liberty of thought and expression which they entrenched in
that document and the scope of equality of status and of opportunity
which they enshrined in it. These specific provisions enacted in the
Constitution alone can determine the basic structure of the
Constitution.
 The concept of freedom of expression does not take the form of a positive or enforceable
right. It is a negative liberty to communicate with others or immunity from interference by
others.33 This means that a person may write or say what he pleases so long as he does not
infringe any law or the right of others. Wheeler v. Leicester City Council (1985) AC 1054
per Browne-Wilkinson, I.J.
 Similarly voting can legitimately be regarded as a form of expression. Pucl
 Manupatra p 2 fn 8 and 9

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