Those who read our previous post about Iceland’s use of crowdsourcing to allow citizens to have an input on the country’s new constitution will be interested to know that the process has proved successful. Last Saturday, Iceland held a referendum to ask the citizens 6 questions about the new constitution and, with almost half the eligible voters participating, nearly two thirds voted in favor of adopting the Constitutional Council’s proposals. The next step in the process will be a putting a bill for the new constitution before Iceland’s Parliament, which could happen as quickly as two weeks from now.
If you want to learn more about this process, you can start by reading the current Constitution of the Republic of Iceland on the government’s website and follow this up by reading the full text of the proposal from the Constitutional Council. For further analysis of the proposal, read this report by the Comparative Constitutions Project, which compares it to both the current constitution of Iceland and other constitutions from around the world.