{"id":741,"date":"2004-03-09T00:09:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T05:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/constitutional_quotas\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T00:09:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T05:09:16","slug":"constitutional_quotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/constitutional_quotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s leaders have signed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpa-iraq.org\/government\/TAL.html\">interim constitution<\/a>.  Yes, it contains a quota, or the legal &#8220;aim&#8221; of a quota, whatever that means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Assembly shall be elected in accordance with an electoral law and a political parties law.  The electoral law shall aim to achieve the goal of having women constitute no less than one-quarter of the members of the National Assembly and of having fair representation for all communities in Iraq, including the Turcomans, ChaldoAssyrians, and others.<br \/>\nChapter 4, Article 30 (c)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, by my count our own U.S. Senate only has 14% females (and no African-Americans), which wouldn&#8217;t cut it under this provision.  Time for senatorial affirmative action.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Say Uncle <a href=\"http:\/\/saysuncle.com\/archives\/002315.html#002315\">points out another constitutional goodie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The individual has the right to security, education, health care, and social security.  The Iraqi State and its governmental units, including the federal government, the regions, governorates, municipalities, and local administrations, within the limits of their resources and with due regard to other vital needs, shall strive to provide prosperity and employment opportunities to the people.<br \/>\nChapter 2, Article 14<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we should be importing &#8220;democracy trainers&#8221; <i>from Iraq<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/constitutional_quotas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Constitutional Quotas\"><p>Iraq&#8217;s leaders have signed the interim constitution. Yes, it contains a quota, or the legal &#8220;aim&#8221; of a quota, whatever that means: The National Assembly shall be elected in accordance with an electoral law and a political parties law. The electoral law shall aim to achieve the goal of having women constitute no less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}