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• Position: THE WEB - University of Texas and Google Inc's Comparative Constitutions Project - Brief article

You probably know that the U.S. Constitution--the oldest written constitution still in effect--begins with "We the people ..." Now you can learn how others are written too, thanks to a new site started by Google with the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas. "Constitute" lets users read, search, and compare more than 180 of the world's constitutions in English; they can be filtered by year, country, or topic, from religious and political rights to race and citizenship. The site's purpose? New constitutions are written all the...