Guide Lines for the Drafting of the constitution , From the General Aung San .

THE SEVEN DIRECTIVES OF GENERAL AUNG SAN.

(Guidelines for the drafting of the Constitution of a Sovereign Independent Burma)

The representatives of the peoples of Burma, including those of the Frontier Areas and Karenni, having assembled in order to fulfil the expressed wishes of the people for the drafting of a Constitution, have passed the following enactments.

1. The constitution to be drafted, shall be known as the Constitution of the Sovereign Independent Republic of the Union of Burma. Furthermore …
2. Within the Union, the individual States established by the Constitution, shall enjoy the powers of autonomy prescribed by the Constitution. Furthermore …
3. The powers of the governmental organization of the Sovereign Independent Republic of Burma and of the Constituent States shall derive from the people. Furthermore …
4. Every citizen of the Union of Burma shall enjoy perfect equality in the social, economic and political fields; and as long as it is not against the law or against public morality, every person shall enjoy freedom of thought, speech, belief, religion, worship, livelihood, action and the freedom to organize, and these rights shall be enshrined in the Constitution. Futuremore …
5. The Constitution must have sufficient provision for the protection of the minorities. Furthermore …
6. In ensuring the unity and integrity of the territory of the sovereign, Independent Republic of Burma and in the exercise of the command of the Nation’s Army, Navy and Air Force, the rules of Justice and International Law shall be observed. Furthermore …
7. We pledge that this Nation of Burma, which has had a distinguished history, shall achieve its deserved place in the world; shall strive with goodwill, to promote progress and economic well-being of all humanity; shall join hands with other nations, conducting ourselves on the basis of justice and international law, with a view to achieving world peace.

With regard to the formation of a Union or Federation, draft proposal No. 2 of the Directives presented the merest outline. However, General Aung San himself had introduced the Draft Constitution drafted by the Preliminary Conference of the A.F.P.F.L. to the Constituent Assembly “as a basis for discussion” so it is quite apparent that there had been some efforts made to classify the Constituent States into several levels