Controversy among Egypt's society and institutions had accompanied the draft constitution since its inception.
The draft constitution, written by a committee of experts after extensive public consultation, is popular.
Some of the main issues opponents of the draft constitution have are the presidential versus parliamentary powers.
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EU, having rejected its draft constitution last year, the French no longer seem to know what they want.
Iraqis vote tomorrow on a draft constitution in what US officials hope will be a step toward national reconciliation.
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Tension over the draft constitution has led to weeks of violence in Egypt.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi draft constitution has passed, according to final results released Tuesday by Iraqi election officials.
As the convention members tried to satisfy everyone, their draft constitution ended up riddled with botched compromises, anomalies and absurdities.
In 1977, the Soviet Union published its new draft constitution, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet the following October.
However, the draft constitution that EU leaders have been discussing, drawn up by a 105-member European Convention, is a terrible mess.
British Eurosceptics fear that the draft constitution would allow Brussels to impose continental-style labour-market restrictions on Britain, thereby importing continental-style high unemployment.
The assembly is due to meet for six months, after which the draft constitution will be put to a national referendum for approval.
Tunisia's revolution ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and brought about a new government and political system, including a new draft constitution.
So it was decided that a committee should prepare a draft constitution by November, which would then be taken to the people for discussion.
Is it worth perhaps postponing the adoption of this draft constitution to hammer out these women's rights, or are you in fact unnecessarily delaying it?
The draft constitution proposes to reduce the disproportionately high number of votes, compared with its population, that Poland won at the Nice summit in 2001.
Many in Egypt felt the draft constitution was passed too quickly.
The agitation has had some effect-Nigeria's new draft constitution proposes raising the proportion of revenues which go back to the prodcer areas from three to thirteen percent.
Under the draft constitution the number of voting commissioners will be held at 15 - meaning 10 countries would not have fully-fledged commissioners when the union expands.
After weeks of wrangling and missed deadlines, a draft constitution was agreed upon by Iraq's Shia Arab and Kurdish politicians but not by Sunni Arabs on the drafting committee.
They could press on with the remaining 14 national votes, as happened in two earlier cases of ratifications in the face of "no" votes, or could declare the draft constitution dead.
On Sunday a former Italian prime minister, who now sits on the body which designed the planned constitution, warned the UK public of being misled over the draft constitution for the European Union.
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian Vice President Mahmoud Mekki is stepping down from his post, state-run Nile TV announced Saturday, amid a second round of voting on the country's Islamist-backed draft constitution.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Voters in Diyala province -- the district north of Baghdad with a majority Sunni Arab population -- are backing the country's draft constitution, according to early figures released from last week's referendum on the law.
The United States strongly supports the process of constitutional reform, including providing assistance for voter registration and civic education, so that Kenyans are able to familiarize themselves with the draft constitution your parliament passed and allow you to make informed decisions.
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.
But he may find it hard to maintain harmony between factions as they draft a constitution.
Parliament has only just begun to debate the composition of the body that is supposed to draft the constitution.
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