LETTER | The absolute power of the rulers to run the administration of the state was abrogated.
| State constitutions existed before 1957, and still exist and are in force. But the ruler's power to interfere in the administration of the state was curbed drastically when the Federal Constitution was enacted on Malaysia’s independence in 1957. From absolute rule to that delimited by the Federal Constitution.
All this changed when the Federal Constitution was enacted. The Reid Commission, which crafted the constitution, altered this absolute power to that delimited by the constitution. Its remit was to safeguard “the position and prestige of Their Highnesses the Rulers as constitutional rulers of their respective states”.
It would not be right, the commission declared, that the ruler as a constitutional sovereign should be involved in political matters. Henceforth the appointments to the state’s executive council “must lie in the hands of the menteri besar. Crucially, a new menteri besar must be free to appoint a new executive council in the same way as the prime minister appoints his ministers.
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