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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 05:52 PM
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Icelandic digital activist praises 'surprisingly good' online constitutional convention
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15304326,00.html

So Iceland has their Constitution and it was created with help from social media and the internet. I have to admit, my first thought at that was... WTF? That sounds like a bad plan to actually get anything done. It truth though it does not look too bad, the only part I really do not care for is Section 6, article 62:

The Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the State Church in Iceland and, as such, it shall be supported and protected by the State.

This may be amended by law.

But I'm really not very big on state sponsored religion. The rest:

http://www.government.is/constitution/

Looks pretty good... or at least nothing else jumped out at me as being particularly bad.
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