In 1992,and again in 1994, the Iraq Foundation published multi-lingual additions of Charter 91, including Arabic, English, Kurdish, Assyrian and Turkoman texts of the Charter, as well as the names of the signatories at the time of publication. Copies of the multilingual, second edition are available from the Iraq Foundation. As a consequence the networks through which civility is normally produced and reproduced have been destroyed. A collapse of values in Iraq has therefore coincided with the destruction of the public realm for uncoerced human association. In these conditions, the first task of a new politics is to reject barbarism and reconstitute civility.
People have rights for no other reason than that they exist as individual human beings.
These rights can only be secured by the rule of law and due process as set out in a written constitution. Such a document comes prior to the formation of legitimate political authority. Political legitimacy must be grounded in a constitution which sets out the principles and constraints of that foundation. Any political authority arising prior to the adoption of a constitution founded on human rights is either transitory, transitional, or illegitimate. Citizenship becomes the irrevocable right of every individual born in Iraq, or to an Iraqi parent, or naturalized by an Iraqi state.