Foreword [The legislative and constitutional development of the Maltese language in a historico-literary context]

Abstract

Professor Raymond Mangion’s monograph titled The Legislative and Constitutional Development of the Maltese Language in a Historico-Literary Context is a first of its kind as no book has ever been published that introspects the Maltese Language from a legal, legislative, constitutional, historical, and literary perspective. For the chequered history of the Maltese Language has developed painfully over centuries but progressively until it reached the point of no return traversing multiple stages, not only those of customary law (legal) and statutory law (legislative), but has anchored itself in Malta’s fundamental law – the Constitution of Malta. [excerpt]