Reply #4: Maybe What He Meant [View All]

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Israel may be another example of this model. In Israel, the first Knesset was elected as a constituent assembly and spent the better part of a year debating whether or not to write a constitution. The body was deadlocked as the traditional religious parties opposed the idea of a constitution other than the Torah (Five Books of Moses-as-interpreted), which is the classic constitution of the Jewish people, while the socialists were equally opposed because they knew that the constitution which would emerge would not embrace their Marxian vision of what the new state should be.

Well that is interesting -- it seems like they have always struggled with the religious and secular from the beginning. However if the Torah is considered the constitution, then my friend is kind of right....