Billmon: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Well, the hagglers in the backroom bazaar in Baghdad either did or did not submit a draft constitution to Iraq's provisional parliament on Monday, which either met or did not meet the deadline specified in the existing U.S.-imposed temporary constitution.

Most likely it didn't, which means, by rights, parliament should have been dissolved and new elections called. But, to no one's surprise, it wasn't and they weren't. It seems constitutional law in Iraq is already proving extremely responsive to changing social needs. So much for the doctrine of original intent.