British Westminster System in Asia——The Malaysian Variation  

作　　者：Abdul Aziz Bari 

机构地区：[1]Department of Public Law, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

出　　处：《US-China Law Review》2007年第1期1-8,16,共9页美中法律评论（英文版）

摘　　要：Malaysia belongs to the family of British Westminster system and the English common law. While the external forms and trappings may present a foreign legacy, the actual working of the country＇s constitutional and legal systems reveals otherwise; namely the indigenous character and temperament. Given the circumstances this is something natural or that the indigenous character has emerged as something that is inevitable. But whatever the truth behind the phenomenon is, the standard to be used now has to be democracy and constitutionalism; not whether Malaysia should follow British tradition or otherwise. In other words, the origin of a practice or an institution is not important for what is more crucial today is whether such could be justified within the existing democratic framework.

关 键 词：CONSTITUTIONALISM constitutional law constitutional history legal history constitutional system Westminster and parliamentary system common law 

分 类 号：D90[政治法律—法学理论]