ABSTRACT
But specific reference to the expression, ‘the rule of law’, in the preamble of the last Constitution and its absence from the present has caused the uninformed and certain agents of destabilisation to say that means an end to the rule of law; that the universality of the rule of law has been abolished in Guyana. Nevertheless, as I have shown, the object is the same in the old as well as in our new socialist Constitutions. The rule of law in Guyana is quite alive and continues unabated and guaranteed to the subject just as it always used to be. Article 40 dealing with fundamental rights and freedom of the individual, and Arts 138-51, inclusive, providing for the protection of these rights, are all indications of the existence of the rule of the supremacy of the law, notwithstanding that expression is not repeated in the present Constitution. Integrally connected with the rule of law are the judicial officers of the State.
