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This 3 page paper examines the Iraqi Constitution. The U.S. Constitution is used for comparison purposes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Islam whereas the United States will not recognize an official religion. To do so, as far as Americans are concerned, would be tantamount to discriminating against people of other faiths.
Article 2 of the Iraqi Constitution dubs Islam the official religion ("Full Text of Iraqi Constitution," 2005). While no law may be established that contradicts Islam, no law can
be created that contradicts democracy ("Full Text of Iraqi Constitution," 2005). This article also guarantees religious freedom, including Christianity ("Full Text of Iraqi Constitution," 2005). While it may
be true that Iraq does endorse religious freedom, the fact that there is a state religion does show favoritism. The fact that Islam is at the center of the Iraqi
Constitution is not something that had been well received. For example, the Bush administration fought against that when the constitution was being drawn up (Ledewitz, 2007). While
the Iraqi Constitution recognizes freedom of religion, it is hard to reconcile that concept with the fact that one religion is preferred. Further, Islam has certain ideas about women that
are not in conjunction with the idea of freedom for all. The U.S. Constitution does support freedom for everyone but it should be said that it would take amendments to
the Constitution down the road to assure freedom for black people and women. Because of this, one might say that some of the issues Iraq confronts now are similar
to the slavery issue in America. That is, when the Constitution was drawn up slavery was tolerated and the Founders really did have the opportunity to change that, but
they chose not to do so. In fact, Marshall (2004) addresses this issue and claims that the writers carefully avoided the use of the term slave. There are again both
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