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by E. Y. Buell

The Parliamentary system of government, as transplanted or grafted, may have served Sri Lanka acceptably in the first few years after independence. However, since the late 1950s it has been on a downward trend and in degeneration. Some little bit of the borrowed trappings and ceremonies continue but the real quality and substance is totally lacking.
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