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Explanatory notes for the ALI on the provisions of the Haitian constitution protecting individual rights. By Dr. Clovis Kernisan, jurist in the state department of foreign affairs. [1] (1943)

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D.E.T.       EXPLANATORY NOTES  OR0 T9E A'ETICAN IAJI T1UTTUTTE
No- 58. ON THE PROVISIONS OF TH3 HAITIAV1 CO'9TITnTIC:,1 -TgTI
INDIVIDUAT. RIG-1TS
BY DR. OLOVIS irlI-!SAW,
JLRIST IN TRE-STATE D3PAT,E.-T  ' F1REIG? AFTAIR'3

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General Observations
In the ooinibn of the undersigned, one way say that not
all principles of Haitian constitutional law are exores ed in
the text of the Constitution now in force. T7oreover, the meaning
and t   bearing of our constitutiona]l provisions Ten-arally cannot
be understood well unless one -nows, at least summarily, the
main ohases of the historical evolution of the liberal and dermo-
cratic institutions of Paiti.
Neglecting the three experiences ;iith -n imn-ial or mo-
narchic regime under Dessa-inas (1804-l16), under 3oulouque
(1849-1859) and under Ch~istophe (lP6-1A20, only in the north
of the country), and without pretending thst the successive
governments have always comnletely respected in fact the principles
proclaimed in our numerous constitutions, one can distinquish,
at least from the ooint of view of ideas,-asoirations or tendencies,
five principal periods in the evolution of the Faitian liberal
system.
The first period, characterized by the first reoublican Con-
stitution of 1806 unde' Pgtion, the fouvnrr of the Republic;
The second, characterized by the Constitution of 1843, the