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Try reading it. Specifically article 3:

Dear Swordmaker.

It is incredible to me that you persist in citing a modern, amended version of the Kenyan constitution, and insisting it is the original.

Please take a look at the link you asked me to read. It says Amended in 1999. How did you miss that?

What you are doing is equivalent to pointing to the modern USA constitution, and insisting that the document shows that the founding fathers signed a document forbidding more than two terms for the president and guaranteeing rights for women. Hello?

The original kenyan constitution not have the word Republic anywhere within it.

You are repeatedly spreading falsehood in this discussion, despite having the truth pointed out to you.

You can peruse the original 1963 Kenyan constitution here: http://www.constitutionnet.org/files/KEL63-002.pdf

You are repeatedly spreading falsehood in this discussion, despite having the truth pointed out to you.

Your find trumps mine. My hat is off to you. Thank you.

I will again point out the lag in reading what has been posted... sort of the check is in the mail. I am further researching to find out exactly when Kenya started to use "republic" in its name—prior to the election, at the election, after the election? Was if a fait accompli by the time of the election? Certainly, the election was held to fill parliamentary posts of a republican form of government. When was the decision made, and when was the switch over in paper work started. It's possible that in a poor country, they would not be wanting to re-print government forms to change a name in such a short time when they already knew that in a few short months, the name of the country would be the Republic of Kenya. (I would tend to think they would grandfather in the old Colonial paper work... but then, I have not lived under colonial rule and don't know how anxious they might have been to be shut of the trappings of that rule.) Certainly, politicians were already setting up their campaigns for the parliamentary offices they were running for months ahead of the actual declaration of being a republic.