Why Tunisia's Constitution is groundbreaking in the Arab World

<div style="position: relative; top: 10px; text-align: left;"> <p>The country where the Arab Spring began, Tunisia, is reaching a milestone. For the past 18 months legislators have been hammering out a constitution. Now they’re in the thick of a final debate over the document. It’s groundbreaking, supposedly the first constitution in the Arab world to not mention Islamic law. And the first to be written by elected representatives. They’ve had some help.</p> <p>Riddhi Dasgupta, an international law expert at Cambridge University, assisted in the drafting of Tunisia’s constitution. He says the Tunisians, after decades of authoritarian rule, wanted to establish the rule of law. </p>
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