By: Merhatsidk Mekonnen Abayneh Dwelling under a Constitutional Roof Regardless of its antique existence as a sovereign political sub-division, Ethiopia can hardly claim to have that long history of constitutional governance, (only 91 years to be exact). During its entire existence which has continued for thousands of years, the country’s crude experimentation of constitutional rule is astonishingly less than one full century restricted to a handful of four successive instruments, the latest being the 1995 F.D.R.E’s Constitution effective to date. Come what may, the existing leadership in Ethiopia and its outspoken personalities, often times, proudly and persistently claim to be