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Hard-liners have accused Yeltsin of using the new constitution to make himself into a modern-day czar. While the draft enshrines the broad provisions of the U.S. Bill of Rights and many declarative guarantees from the communist era, like the right to housing and medical care, it leaves key questions about the organization of the legislative branch to the discretion of the new parliament...
...elections. Nonetheless, he took to the campaign trail last week on a surprise visit to the volatile North Caucasus region, where ethnic tensions have sparked armed conflicts. The President's message could not have been more direct: if voters in this separatist-minded region failed to endorse his new draft constitution, the Russian Federation was in danger of falling apart. Local officials dutifully joined the President in a statement calling for a da vote in the constitutional referendum...
...draft document, in the making for more than three years, offers Russians an impressive list of human rights. It upholds the principle of private property, including land ownership, as well as freedom of speech and religion. The document also outlaws home searches without a court order, protects the privacy of mail and telephone communications and explicitly forbids the use of torture. But words on paper do not make a law-governed state. Russians remember grandiloquent provisions on human rights contained in constitutions written for Stalin in 1936 and Leonid Brezhnev in 1977 -- rights they never enjoyed. Without stable government institutions...
Anger expects the coalition will draft a new constitution for the Undergraduate Council that will be presented to the council's re-evaluation committee next semester...
...fear is that this interim constitution, which puts in place a government of national unity for the next five years, will not fulfill its promise of a reasonable balance of power to those who distrust Mandela and the A.N.C. De Klerk called the draft "a product of compromise" that could be either "a charter for peace" or "a prescription for powermongering." Ominously, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party and several white separatist groups -- which have rejected the negotiations, threatened to boycott the elections and even hinted at armed resistance -- stayed away from the signing. They continue to insist that regions...