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President Mwai Kibaki displays the new Kenyan constitution to the nation after he promulgated and signed it into law at a public function at Uhuru Park, Nairobi. [Reuters]

This week, the country celebrated the 14th year since promulgation of the Constitution 2010. In the prophecy of the Chicago Law School's Comparative Constitutions Project, a constitution has a good life for just about 19 years.

Thereafter it may wear out and may no longer support the realities of the social contract aspirations between the citizens and the state.

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