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Mon 04 Apr 2010Party would ask citizens to write new constitution
THE LABOUR Party in government would appoint ordinary citizens, chosen at random, to a special convention charged with drawing up a new constitution for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, party leader Eamon Gilmore has said.
These individuals would be chosen in much the same way as juries are selected and he said the Canadian province of British Columbia used a similar approach in constitutional matters.
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