The Research Of Kenya’s New Constitution In2010

Constitution is the law of a country, in order to guarantee human rights as the toppriority, and adopt the separation of powers, restrict the power of the government’smeasures to safeguard human rights in the constitution core escort mission. Kenya’spresidential election in2007sparked a once-in-a-century constitutional crisis in Kenya,the political, culture, economy and people’s life safety is threatened and faced with suchserious situation, the government decided on the constitutional reform from the bottom towant to enact a new constitution to from the aspects of the rule of law to quell riots andalleviate conflicts. In August2010, Kenya enacted a new constitution under the specialpolitical background and the historical opportunity in order to constitutional reform after aconstitutional crisis in2008.This constitutional reform is not only determines the real"popular sovereignty","natural rights" constitutional principle, but also set up andimprove the system of protection of human rights, in politics has been revised andperfected the system of existing and through constitutional to ensure the implementationof economic reform.Firstly on the development of constitution in Kenya has carried on the detailedinvestigation, and secondly the background and process of a new constitution forreplacement, then introduced its main content according to the new constitution text. It isincluding the bill of rights, constitutional system and other aspects of content and mademajor changes in detail relative to the old constitution, finally, promulgated a newconstitution in Kenya after judging the influence of both at motherland and abroad.This article will help people to understand development of Kenya’s constitution, andaround Kenya’s new constitution as a background, process, the text content analysis andinfluence and so on related content have a system comprehensive understanding of, andalso play a role in the future for our research in promoting African constitutions, alongwith our country carried out marked the30th anniversary of publishment constitution innineteen eighty two promulgated a series of activities last year, and now the rise of stateconstitutional law research boom in Africa, we believe that the studying of Africanconstitution also will enter a new mileage in the future.