Constitutional Lineage of Pakistan
Every framework that governed these territories before the 1973 Constitution — from the first parliamentary statutes over the East India Company, through the first Government of India Act (1858) and the Crown-rule reforms, the Dominion interim order (1947–56), the 1956 Constitution and the first martial law, the 1962 Constitution and the second martial law, and the provisional instruments that led to 14 August 1973 — where the engine's article-by-article history begins.
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KSC.JUSNREM — Constitutional Intelligence Engine
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 — not as a static PDF, but as a living, version-controlled body of law. Every article is a discrete document; every enacted amendment is a recorded change, dated to its actual day of assent and attributed to the President who signed it.
Use the time machine bar to read the constitution exactly as it stood after any amendment from 1973 to the present. The timeline narrates each amendment in plain language and lists every article it touched. Compare shows precise word-level differences between any two versions of any article. Search spans the full constitutional text, all amendment summaries, the pre-1973 frameworks, and the statute library.
The Lineage view traces the full constitutional ancestry: the Company-era statutes (1773–1853), the first Government of India Act (1858) and the Crown-rule reform acts up to the Government of India Act 1935, the Dominion interim framework (1947–1956), the 1956 Constitution and the first martial law (1958), the 1962 Constitution and the second martial law (1969), and the provisional instruments — LFO 1970, Interim Constitution 1972 — that led to the 1973 Constitution, including the landmark cases (Tamizuddin, Dosso, Asma Jilani) that defined each rupture.
The Statute Library holds the great codes that operate beneath the constitution — the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — browsable section by section. These texts come from automated extraction of official PDF compilations; each page carries its provenance and a pointer to the Pakistan Code for the authoritative text.
The 9th, 11th and 15th Amendments were proposed but never passed, and therefore do not appear in the enacted history.
Data source: github.com/ksc-jusnrem/legalize-pk — the legislative texts are in the public
domain. Engine and interface © KSC.JUSNREM, published at jusnrem.digital. Structure and
format under the MIT License. Original dataset concept by Umer Butt, inspired by legalize-es.