"It's the last socialist constitution in Europe," grumbled one Eurocrat.
Kenya's last draft constitution was soundly defeated in 2005, setting up the ethnic-based political alliances that fought one another during the violence in 2008.
And then let's pass the ERA, so at long last the Constitution will declare that women matter -- and they matter equally.
Near Angola on 3 November, in what would be her last capture, Constitution took as a prize the American ship H. N. Gambrill, which had been determined to be involved in the slave trade.
"The last two constitutions have been written by the community rather than a few people over many months," Chris, another moderator and a German university student, told me over Discord.
After a re-adoption in 1937, the Byelorussian SSR adopted its last Soviet-era constitution in 1978, mainly to reflect changes made in the 1977 Soviet Constitution.
The last time the Constitution was amended for social purposes was in 1920, when alcohol was outlawed, but that prohibition was repealed in 1933.
The last time our Constitution changed, with the ratification of the 27th Amendment in 1992, it took a 10-year campaign (begun by a University of Texas undergraduate) to resuscitate an amendment that Congress had submitted to the states for ratification more than 200 years earlier.
This was a giant bill held open for collecting random constitutional changes until the very last minute before the constitution went into effect.
