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Our generation is too polluted to make a constitution for future generations

 By Barrack Muluka

I have been reminded once again of the words of the Philosopher Thomas Paine who wrote in the age of the French Revolution of 1789–92: ‘When a man has so far prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.’

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