Iraqi parliament accepts constitution
- Monday, August 29 2005 @ 08:36 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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The Iraqi parliament receives the draft constitution:
The final draft was read to the parliament, but the assembly did not vote on the constitution, and it is a matter of dispute whether the Transitional Administrative Law - the interim constitution that governs the process - requires it to do so. The 15 Sunni Arabs who sat on the drafting committee said they rejected the document, despite several last-minute changes aimed at winning their support.Democracy marches on . . .