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After the judgment the Constitutional Assembly reconvened to swiftly fix the flaws so that the Court would have time to certify the text that year.
On 7 October, parties reached an agreement on all eight clauses that had been rejected by the Court. The Assembly approved, with only one vote against, an amended Constitution for submission to the Court on 11 October.
The amended version contained many changes: some dealt with the Court's reasons for rejection; others simply tightened up the text.
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The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1955 carried the idea forward.
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