legislative power, and the people who have legislative power are not experimenting with participation.

You have this National Assembly drafting this constitution.

Now, this is a rear projected drafting table.

The Legislative Assembly, you might remember, a new constitution was created at the end of 1791, and that entailed a new Legislative Assembly.

Well, you can imagine the delight over at General Drafting.

His name was Palo. We were both in the Legislative Youth Programme.

You can just walk in their footsteps just use the science of drafting.

And they've taken out the autoshop class and the drafting class and the art class.

The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings.

Concerning the pre referendum phase, the National Assembly largely succeeded in this task. Although Iraq s interim constitution gave the Assembly exclusive control over the drafting process, the Assembly wisely reached out beyond its membership in creating a constitutional drafting committee.

So, this is a map of New York State that was made in 1937 by the General Drafting Company.

Having worked in Washington, what you learn is that, typically in Washington, the legislative fights are fights between different sets of corporate monied interests.

Maybe his revolt, which maybe helped precipitate the eventual slave revolt, which eventually might have helped the Legislative Assembly come to terms with this idea.

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

But beginning in the 1990s, first the House of Representatives changed its legislative calendar so that all business is basically done in the middle of the week.

People who come to the clinic are called, not patients, but impatients, because they're too impatient to wait for legislative change to address local and environmental health issues.

We might even call them citizens, because they've recently risen up to fight against legislative incursion, and the citizens of these networks work together to serve each other in great ways.

They're not protected in Ireland in fact, they have no legislative status in Ireland whatsoever, despite our importance for the species and also the historical context within which basking sharks reside.

A simple change to the legislative calendar, such as having business stretch out for three weeks and then they get a week off to go home, that would change the fundamental relationships in Congress.

So for him, Studio H offers him a way to develop the skills he will need as an architect, everything from drafting to wood and metal construction to how to do research for a client.

But I wanted to say that interaction, re scripting that interaction, into collective action, collective remediative action, very different from the approach that's being used on the other side on the Hudson River, where we're dredging the PCBs after 30 years of legislative and legal struggle,

The constitutional process now under way in Iraq represents a hopeful milestone for all Iraqis. After decades of successively imposed constitutions, an elected assembly has overseen the process of drafting a new permanent constitution, and the draft text will be voted on by ordinary Iraqis on October 15.

And I want to be clear to mention that this open government revolution is not about privatizing government, because in many cases what it can do when we have the will to do so is to deliver more progressive and better policy than the regulations and the legislative and litigation oriented strategies by which we make policy today.

A second important feature of the drafting process was the extent to which the National Assembly complied with the requirements of Iraq s interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL). At the time of the transfer of authority in June of 2004, many pundits predicted that an elected National Assembly would ignore an interim constitution drafted by an unelected Governing Council and promulgated by an occupying authority.

Coercive Act, they essentially did a blockade of Boston, so things started to get really really really tense in the early 1770s, than if you fast forward to 1775 you have essentially the first conflicts of the American Revolutionary War and we're going to do a whole series of videos on really the whole Revolutionary War, 1776 you have the Declaration of Independence, this is them right here drafting the Declaration of Independence and thats really just saying