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| (Partial) Text of Proposed Iraq Constitution | |
| 2005-08-23 | |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 I have been noticing a lot of overheating in the media about how now Iraq is a Islamic state laws based on Islam blah blah blah. At first this pissed me off then after reading the actual words not the LLL's Propoganda I think that all we wanted is garanteed in the wording. Example Islam is basis but freedom of religion is garanteed further down so to me this sounds just more like the Iraqs have learned from us and dropped the seperation of church and state crap that the aithiest love so in this country. Our founders happened to be cristians a lot of our laws were based on such values but they were also smart enough to garantee freedom of religion. Of course the LLL's perverted this into freedom from religion. I think the Iraqs will be OK just one less basic thing to have to agrue about for them in the future. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-08-23 22:20 |
| #6 This sounds like a good way to prevent the legislature from making laws. Perhaps we should adopt it. Or just get Bush to actually veto something. |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-08-23 13:49 |
| #5 The Iraqi constitution is a compromise document; just like ours, I might add. As Albert J Nock clearly details in his great work "Our Enemy The State," the Jefferson-Madison-Burr and Washington-Adams-Hamilton factions had very, very different views on, for example, federalism. Our rather beloved and robust constitution is the result of a great deal of dickering between various social, commercial, and ideological factions. It's worked pretty well for a long time, though, in spite of recent moonbattery. I've read the Iraqi's compromise document and it doesn't seem too bad to me. A good starting point for their experiment with democracy at the very least. I would love to hear Liberalhawks thoughts on this if he's around. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-08-23 13:37 |
| #4 This sounds like a good way to prevent the legislature from making laws. Perhaps we should adopt it. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-23 10:58 |
| #3 How many mullahs do they need for a filibuster? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-08-23 10:24 |
| #2 Aren’t Islamic standards and democratic standards diametrically opposed? Kinda like matter and anti-matter? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-08-23 04:27 |
| #1 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. Note: This is not Scrappleface. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-23 03:21 |