Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The New Syrian Constitution

It guarantees:
  • Healthcare and social security for all citizens.
  • Conscribes Military service.
  • Right to fair trial and appeal.
  • Prohibits torture (as prescribed "by law") like the US.
  • The Assembly must generate a budget each year.
  • Presidential candidates must be 40. Wonder why??
  • Elections only run 90 days before the end of a presidential term.
  • Candidates must have written support of at least 35 members of the Assembly
  • Presidential terms run for 7 years, with one re-election (so 14 years and lets Assad serve till he's 61).
  • They can have more than one Vice President. Why? Kin folk?
  • If the President can't do the job, the Vice President takes over. Which one?
  • President needs Assembly's approval to declare war.
  • Ministers can't be part of a company (think Dick Cheyney and Halliburton).
  • The Cabinet (Ministry) can include people serving in the Assembly. Nuts..
  • Independent Judiciary. Wish we had that in the US.
  • Supreme Court appointments run 4 years. Who extends that is not defined.
  • How the Supreme Court is created/selected is not defined (puppets "by law").
  • The Court can't deride referendum laws.
  • Amending the Constitution requires four quarters (questionable translation) of the Assembly.

Read it yourself here: http://ht.ly/96fOn
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

How The FBI Decided To Go After Anonymous



Interesting.  If you are a Libertarian who heavily protested what PayPal did last December, you are on the list of FBI suspects.  Pretty shaky..from the"Constitutional" point of view??  I see a few law suits in the DOJ's future...

Monday, April 12, 2010

Is The US Christian??

Lets look at the actual Constitution;

The only mention of religion at all is Article 6; "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"

Sounds a little secular to me?

In the Bill of Rights, Article 1; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

How was the Bush "Faith Based Initiative" not challenged and over-turned??

So how is this a country founded on Judea-Christian beliefs?