The Constitution of Iceland (Icelandic: Stjórnarskrá lýdveldisins Íslands "Constitution of the republic of Iceland") is the supreme law of Iceland. It is composed of 80 articles in seven sections, and within it the leadership arrangement of the country is determined and the human rights of its citizens are preserved. The current constitution was first instituted on June 17, 1944; since then, it has been amended seven times. Iceland's constitution is now in its—and the world's—first broadrangingly democratic process of overhaul. A special commission, elected by the Althingi — the national parliament of Iceland — and conducting most of its work openly on the internet, has drafted a new constitution that presently awaits ratification by the Althingi, the supreme legislative body in both the proposed new constitution and the old.
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