- The Premise that the Laws Stand Above All Men
Accountability: The Role of Confession and Penalty
Subordination of Warriors to Deliberative Assemblies
Man Made Laws and The Great Law Makers
Daawwee Gobboo (1706)
Makoo Bilii (1580)- Supreme Authority of the General Assembly
Government by Council and Assemblies - Seniority and Equality
Term of Office and Measurement of Time
Limitation of Office to a Single Term
A Period of Testing: Time Gap between Election and Investiture
Use of History as Precedent and Ethical Guide (Dhacch’i)
Hereditary and Elective Leadership
Principle of Staggered Succession
Principle of Alliance of Alternative Groups
The Problem of Discontinuity of Authority
Principle of Balanced Opposition
Distribution of Power across Generations
Separation of Powers: Functional and Spatial
Separation of the Ritual and Political Domain (Mura and Ebba)
Source: Bokku, Dirribu Demissie. Oromo Wisdom in Black Civilization. April 2011, Finfinnee Printing & Publishing, Oromia
Oromo GADAA: Eighteen Principles
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