Is The Constitution A Key? Facebook Twitter Google+ Share 6 By Sumanasiri Liyanage – Sumanasiri Liyanage “ We all know the old joke about a guy looking for his lost key under the street light; when asked where he lost it, he admits that it was in a dark corner. So why he looking for it here, under the light? Because the visibility is much better here. ” ~ (Zizek Jokes. 2004) The current debate on constitutional change reminded me this old joke about drunkard guy looking for a lost key. In this discussion, I shall use the old Marxian term – the national question – rather than the conventional terms -the Tamil ethnic question or the ethnic problem- commonly used in the current discourse. It has been incessantly argued with some justification that a new constitution or a revolutionary changes in the existing constitution is the key to resolving the national question as the Tamil struggle has been from its inception revolved around the issue of ...