Dodson said the two proposals – of recognition in a preamble, or changing or removing specific sections within the constitution – came down to whether change is inside or outside the constitution.
It is important to understand that ever since 1969, when he was a young civil rights lawyer working in Atlanta, Mr. Siegel had made it practically a sacrament to sit in a public park on Independence Day and read the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, right down to the last amendment.
Other metropolitan dailies also posted steep declines, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, down 8.5percentto to 326,907, and The Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St.
Several prominent Kenyan Christian leaders have urged their supporters to vote the constitution down, though most recent polls indicate that it will pass.
But as European leaders contemplate the strong possibility that the European constitution will go down to a double defeat in next week's referendums in France and the Netherlands, they may start to wonder how they got into this mess in the first place.It would be comforting to believe that the drive to write a constitution for the European Union was unavoidable comforting, but wrong.
Yet many analysts say Kenya has no choice but to proceed, and that if it votes the constitution down, it is flirting with disaster.
It could be that he had an infection, was found to be HIV positive or had worn his constitution down with too much beer, wurst und kartofel.
"From the constitution down," said Roy Bennett, a senior member of the Zimbabwean opposition, "Zimbabwean law is blatantly and flagrantly racist".
In the end, only four votes were held, and the French and Dutch no votes in mid-2005 broughthehe constitution down.
