The Somali government framed the 1960 constitution as a consensual national charter

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Finally, although key leaders of the government worked hard to win support for the constitution, they made certain that the public understood that the charter did not belong to this government alone or to any particular political party. They explained that instead it was a consensual national document that should be endorsed or rejected on its merits. President Osman lamented that those who did not like his choice of prime minister opportunistically conflated the charter with their partisan politics. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 537