The paper is basically a beginning of the bill of rights studies as an integral part of the Kenya’s legal system. If one looks at the constitution as national covenant between the people of Kenya among themselves and between the people on the one hand and the government on the other, bill of rights chapter is the crystallization of the core demands of the people from the government. Some of these other doctrines are sovereignty of the people, checks and balances, public participation and perspicuity, multi-party democracy, government of effective and ethical mechanisms, environmental sanctity and sustainable development, rule of law, constitutional supremacy, protection and enhancement of community values and stability, among others. They also proffer inkling into the evolution of the Kenyan legal system. Together with other doctrines, the bill of rights makes up the 2010 constitutional dispensation. Rather it reiterates them and also provides a sovereign pathway for drawing their parameters from a social contractarian perspective. The bill of rights does not create these human rights. It’s replete with safeguards against human rights abuse and legitimated limitations. In Kenya this is duly fulfilled under chapter four of the constitution. A bill of rights is basically a legal enactment of the human rights- civic and political, social and cultural, economic, group, minority and environmental rights. The paper is an analysis of the Bill of rights as provided for in the Kenyan constitution.
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