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The Iraq Constitution

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Foreign Policy, History, The World

This is the first proposal, not yet ratified…

Chapter One

Article One

The Republic of Iraq is an independent state.

Article Two

The political system is republican, parliamentary, democratic and federal.

1. Islam is a main source for legislation.

– a. No law may contradict Islamic standards.

– b. No law may contradict democratic standards.

– c. No law may contradict the essential rights and freedoms mentioned in this constitution.

2. This constitution guarantees the Islamic identity of the Iraqi people and guarantees all religious rights; all persons are free within their ideology and the practice of their ideological practices.

3. Iraq is part of the Islamic world, and the Arabs are part of the Arab nation.

Read the rest of the proposed Iraq Consitution.

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2 Responses to “The Iraq Constitution”

David Says:
August 23rd, 2005 at 10:16 am
Fascinating.

I particularly find 1.a and 1.b interesting: the only way I could square those would be to assume that the actual lawmaking powers shall be pretty limited. Not a bad thing :)

Also, article 36 and 39 are excellent – freedom of expression, press, and religion?! yay! They one-upped us: we had to amend to get those…

interestingly, article 7 prohibits a specific party… hm. I guess it’s necessary, but unfortunate that it has to be consitiutional…
Rachel Says:
August 24th, 2005 at 7:08 am
A perfect constitiution does not a perfect democracy make. They can demand a separation of church and state AND equal powers of women on the spot (they had it under Husseitn) one day and destroy it culturally the next.

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