Structural solutions

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Both Afghanistan and Iraq have been facing a fascinating problem: how do you devise a constitution that works?

I’m not shocked, but I am dismayed that there is almost no media coverage of the contents of Afghanistan’s constitution or Iraq’s interim constitution — no comparison of their constitutions to ours, to the EU’s proposed constitution, to the constitution we more or less wrote for Japan after World War II, nothing. Fortunately, Steven Den Beste analyzes Iraq’s constitution in Structural solutions:

I have been reading the Iraqi Constitution which was signed on Monday. It is not perfect by any means; there are aspects of it would could conceivably lead to trouble later. But taken as a whole I think it is an astounding piece of work, subtle and powerful and extremely well crafted.

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