학술논문

COVID-19, Constitutions, and the Courts: Evaluating the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Religious Liberty.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Journal of Church & State. Autumn2022, Vol. 64 Issue 4, p702-720. 19p.
Subject
*FREEDOM of religion
*COVID-19 pandemic
*COVID-19
*CONSTITUTIONS
*SPIRITUALITY
*RELIGIOUS communities
Language
ISSN
0021-969X
Abstract
In Kenya, the responsibility for managing the pandemic was centralized in the national government.[27] The first set of measures was announced by the government on March 15, 2022, at the outset of the pandemic. The United Kingdom government, and I suspect many others, consciously exploited a deliberate normative ambiguity.[66] Since rules were made in haste and by government decree (only subsequently coming before Parliament for retrospective approval), they lacked any adequate legislative scrutiny.[67] Unprecedented peacetime use of extraordinary regulatory powers changes the citizen's view of government, and government's view of itself. [68] One curious aspect of the Kenyan situation is the positive decision of the government not to declare a state of emergency, as this would have created a level of prescribed scrutiny which could be avoided by using (or abusing) the procedure that the government followed instead. [Extracted from the article]