Contemporary Constitutional Issues in our Multiparty Democracy be constitutional issues; and third, many of the issues that should be included in the list of constitutional issues have never ever been mentioned by those clamouring for the amendment of the Constitution. Let us take a quick inventory of just eight(8) of the issues that are making the rounds as possible candidates for consideration in a process of constitutional review: 1. There is the issue of separating the Office of the Attorney-General from that of the Minister for Justice; 2. There is the proposal that the constitutional requirement for selecting at least half of Ministers of State from Parliament be amended or scrapped; 3. There is the proposal to amend the constitution so that private members of parliament may propose bills for the consideration of the House, even if those bills have financial implications; 4. There is the proposal for allowing a greater span of time between parliamentary and presidential elections and the swearing in of a new government in order to ensure a smooth transition; 5. There is the proposal to reconsider the ban on chiefs from participating in politics and from holding some categories of political and constitutional offices; 6. There is the proposal to ensure greater participation of chiefs in the District Assemblies; 7. There are proposals for limiting the tenure of Commissioners of the Constitutional Bodies such as the Electoral Commission, the National Commission on Civic Education and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice; and 8. There is the proposal to make the position of District Chief Executives elective. My first submission is that these constitutional issues are not contemporary at all. For example, the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana(Amendment) Bill, 1996 contained provisions meant to allow chiefs to engage in active party politics. Parliament rejected these proposals and did not pass them into law. 4 The issue of selecting Ministers from the membership of Parliament is what informed the different constitutional regimes in the 1969 and 1979 Constitutions. We seem to have found both extremes undesirable and decided to create a blend in the 1992 Constitution. After trying the left, the right and the centre of the issue, I do not know 4 K.B. Ayensu and S.N. Darkwa, The Evolution of Parliament in Ghana, P. 103 quoted in Justice G. L. Lamptey, Ten Years of Constitutional Rule in Ghana 1993-2003: An Overview. IEA Governance Newsletter,(July, 2003). 11