Presidential Term Limits and Constitutional Democracy - A Textual, Structural, Purposive, and Comparative Analysis of Article 66(2) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana

The Supreme Court of Ghana has settled on a broadly purposive method of constitutional interpretation, and the lineage is worth tracing because it supplies the tools for the present problem. In Tuffuor v Attorney-General, Sowah JSC (as he then was) described the Constitution as a living organism capable of growth and development, to be interpreted with a broad and liberal spirit rather than the narrow technique appropriate to ordinary statutes.