1. The sovereignty of Iraq is an indivisible entity.
2. The territory of Iraq is an indivisible entity of which no part can be ceded.

1. Iraq is a part of the Arab Nation.
2. The Iraqi People are composed of two principal nationality: the Arab Nationality and the Kurdish Nationality.
3. This Constitution acknowledges the national rights of the Kurdish People and the legitimate rights of all minorities within the Iraqi unity.

1. Arabic is the official language.
2. The Kurdish language is official, besides Arabic, in the Kurdish Region.

1. Baghdad is the Capital of the Iraqi Republic, and it can be transferred by law.
2. The Iraqi Republic is divided into administrative units and is organized on the basis of decentralization.

1. Establishing the socialist system on scientific and revolutionary foundations.
2. Realizing the economic Arab unity.

The State and all People are responsible for safeguarding, securing, and protecting it. Any sabotage to it or aggression against it, is considered as sabotage and aggression against the entity of the Society.

1. Ownership is a social function, to be exercised within the objectives of the Society and the plans of the State, according to stipulations of the law.
2. Private ownership and economic individual liberty are guaranteed according to the law, and on the basis of not exercising them in a manner incompatible with the economic and general planning.
3. Private property is not expropriated except for considerations of public interest and for just compensation in accordance with the law.
4. The maximum limit of agricultural property is prescribed by the law; the surplus is owned by the People.

1. Citizens are equal before the law, without discrimination because of sex, blood, language, social origin, or religion.
2. Equal opportunities are guaranteed to all citizens, according to the law.

1. An accused is presumed to be innocent, until proved guilty at a legal trial.
2. The right of defense is sacred, in all stages of proceedings and prosecution.
3. Courts sessions are public, unless it becomes secret by a court's decision.

1. Penalty is personal.
2. There can be no crime, nor punishment, except in conformity with the law. No penalty shall be imposed, except for acts punishable by the law, while they are committed. A severer penalty than that prescribed by the law, when the act was committed, cannot be inflicted.

1. The dignity of man is safeguarded. It is inadmissible to cause any physical or psychological harm.
2. It is inadmissible to arrest a person, to stop him, to imprison him or to search him, except in accordance with the rules of the law.
3. Homes have their sanctity. It is inadmissible to enter or search them, except in accordance with the rules of the law.

1. The State undertakes the struggle against illiteracy and guarantees the right of education, free of charge, in its primary, secondary, and university stages, for all citizens.
2. The State strives to make the primary education compulsory, to expand vocational and technical education in cities and rural areas, and to encourage particularly night education which enables the popular masses to combine science and work.
3. The State guarantees the freedom of scientific research, encourages and rewards excellence and initiative in all mental, scientific, and artistic activities and all aspects of popular excellence.

1. Public office is a sacred confidence and a social service; its essence is the honest and conscious obligation to the interests of the masses, their rights and liberties, in accordance with the rules of the constitution and the laws.
2. Equality in the appointment for public offices is guaranteed by the law.

1. The defense of the homeland is a sacred duty and honor for the citizens; conscription is compulsory and regulated by the law.
2. Armed Forces belong to the People and are entrusted with ensuring his security, defending his independence, protecting the safety and the integrity of the people and territory, and realizing his national and regional objectives and aspirations.
3. The State alone establishes the Armed Forces. No other organization or group, is entitled to establish military or para-military formations.

1. Work is a right, which is ensured to be available for every able citizen.
2. Work is an honor and a sacred duty for every able citizen, and is indispensable by the necessity to participate in building the society, protecting it, and realizing its evolution and prosperity.
3. The State undertakes to improve the conditions of work, and raise the standard of living, experience, and culture for all working citizens.
4. The State undertakes to provide the largest scale of social securities for all citizens, in cases of sickness, disability, unemployment, or aging.
5. The State undertakes to elaborate the plan to secure the means necessary to enable the working citizens to pass their vacations in an atmosphere, which enables them to improve their health standard, and to promote their cultural and artistic talents.

1. The Iraqi Republic grants the right of political asylum for all militants, persecuted in their countries because of defending the liberal and human principles which are assumed by the Iraqi People in this Constitution.
2. The extradition of political refugees is prohibited.

1. Electing a President from its members, called President of the Revolutionary Council, who is President of the Republic.
2. Electing a Vice-President from its members, called Vice-President of the Revolutionary Command Council, who replaces the President, as qualified in the preceding paragraph, in case of his official absence or in case of the impossibility of exercising his constitutional competencies or any legitimate reason.
3. Selecting new members for the Council, from members of the Regional Leadership of the Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party, not to exceed twelve members.
4. Taking a decision concerning the resignation of the President, and Vice-President or any of the Council's members.
5. Relieving any member of the Council's membership.
6. Accusing and prosecuting members of the Revolutionary Command Council, Vice-Presidents, and Ministers.

1. The President, the Vice-President, or one third of the members can call a meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council. Meetings held are presided by the President or the Vice-President and are attended by the majority of the members.
2. Meetings and debates of the Revolutionary Command Council are closed. Disclosing it, invokes constitutional responsibility before the Council. Decisions of the Council are declared, published and communicated by the means specified in this Constitution.
3. Laws and decisions are ratified in the Council by the majority of its members, except otherwise stipulated by the Constitution.

1. Issuing laws and decrees having the force of the law.
2. Issuing decisions indispensable for applying the rules of the enacted laws.

1. Ratifying matters of the Ministry of Defense and Public Security, elaborating the laws and taking the decisions in whatever concerns them from the point of view of organization and competencies.
2. Declaring the public mobilization totally or partially, declaring the war, accepting the truce, and concluding the peace.
3. Ratifying the draft general budget of the state, independent and investment budgets annexed to it, and ratifying final accounts.
4. Ratifying treaties and international agreements.
5. Elaborating its internal rules of procedure, determining its competencies, ratifying its budget, appointing its officials, determining rewards and remunerations of the President, the Vice-President, its members and officials.
6. Elaborating the rules regarding the prosecution of its members, concerning the formation of the court and the procedures to be followed in it.
7. Vesting its President or the Vice-President with some of his competencies prescribed in this Constitution, except legislative competencies.

1. Presiding over the meetings of the Council, representing it, controlling its sessions, and issuing orders for expenditure.
2. Signing all laws and decisions issued by the Council and publishing them in the Official Gazette.
3. Supervising the activities of Ministries and organizations in the State, calling Ministers to discuss matters concerning their Ministries and questioning them in case of necessity, and notify- ing the Revolutionary Command Council regarding that.

The President can call it for an extraordinary meeting in case of necessity, and the meeting is restricted to matters which necessitated calling the meeting. Sessions of the National Assembly are held and dismissed by a decision of the Revolutionary Command Council.

1. Members of the National Assembly are not censured for opinions or suggestions expressed by them in the performance of their task.
2. No member of the Assembly can be pursed or arrested for a crime committed during a meeting session without permission of the Assembly, except in the case of flagrante delicto.

1. Elaborating its internal statute, determining its competencies, deciding its budget, and appointing its employees. Rewards and remunerations of its President and members are determined by a law.
2. Elaborating rules for accusing and prosecuting its members, in case of committing one of the actions stipulated in Article 55 of this Constitution.

1. The National Assembly considers the draft laws proposed by the Revolutionary Command Council within fifteen days from the date of their delivery to the office of the Presidency of the National Assembly. If the Assembly approves the draft, it is sent to the President of the Republic, to be promulgated; but if it is rejected or modified by the National Assembly, it is returned to the Revolutionary Command Council. If this latter approves the modification, it sends the draft to the President of the Republic, to be promulgated.
2. If the Revolutionary Command Council insists upon its point of view, in the second reading, it is returned to the National Assembly, to be reviewed in a common meeting between the two chambers; the decision taken by a two-thirds majority, is con- sidered final.

1. If the Assembly rejects the draft, it is returned to the President of the Republic with the reasons which justified the rejection.
2. If the Assembly approves the draft, it is sent to the Revolutionary Command Council and becomes issuable after that Assembly approves it.
3. If the National Assembly modifies the draft, it is sent to the Revolutionary Command Council and becomes issuable if that Council approves it.
4. But if the Revolutionary Command Council opposes to modifying the draft, or if it makes another modification, it is once again returned to the National Assembly within a week.
5. If the National Assembly approves the point of view of the Revolutionary Command Council, it sends the draft to the President of the Republic for promulgating it.
6. But if the National Assembly insists, in the second reading, upon its point of view, a common meeting of the two chambers is held and the draft issued by two-thirds majority is considered definite and is sent to the President of the Republic to be promulgated.

1. If the Assembly approves the draft law, it is sent to the Revolutionary Command Council to be considered within fifteen days from its delivery to the Council's Office.
2. If the Revolutionary Command Council approves it, the draft is sent to the President of the Republic to be promulgated.
3. If the Revolutionary Command Council rejects the draft, it is returned to the National Assembly.
4. If the Revolutionary Command Council modifies the draft, it is returned to the National Assembly.
5. If this latter insists upon its point of view, in the second reading, a common meeting for the two chambers is held, presided over by the President of the Revolutionary Command Council or the Vice-President. The draft issued by two-thirds majority is considered definite and is sent to the President of the Republic to be promulgated.

1. Vice-Presidents of the Republic, Ministers, and those at their rank, have the right to attend the meetings of the National Assembly and to participate in its debates.
2. The National Assembly, with a permission of the President of the Republic, has the right to call Ministers for the purpose of clarification or investigation.

1. The President of the Republic is the Head of the State and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and he exercises the Executive Authority directly or by the assistance of his Deputies and Ministers, according to the rules of the Constitution.
2. The President of the Republic issues the decrees necessary for exercising his competencies stipulated in this Constitution.

1. Preserving the independence of the Country, its territorial integrity, safeguarding its internal and external security, and protecting the rights and liberties of all citizens.
2. Declaring the state of total and partial emergency and ending it according to the law.
3. Appointing the Vice-Presidents of the Republic and relieving them of their posts.
4. Appointing the governors, the judges, and all civil and military State employees, promoting them, terminating their services, placing them on disponibility, and granting badges of honor and military grades, according to the law.
5. Elaborating the draft general State budget, the independent and investment budgets annexed to it, and ratifying the final accounts of these budgets and referring them to the National Assembly to discuss them.
6. Preparing the general plan of the State in all economic and social affairs, elaborated by competent Ministries and referring it to the National Assembly.
7. Contracting and granting loans, supervising the organization and administration of money and credit.
8. Supervising all the public utilities, official and quasi-official organizations and public sector organizations.
9. Directing and controlling the work of Ministries and public organizations and coordinating them.
10. Conducting negotiations and concluding agreements and international treaties.
11. Accepting the diplomatic and international representatives in Iraq and demanding their withdrawal.
12. Appointing and accrediting the Iraqi diplomatic representatives in Arab and foreign Capitals and in international conferences and organizations.
13. Issuing special amnesty and ratifying judgements of capital punishment.
14. Supervising the good enforcement of the Constitution, the laws, decisions, judicial judgements, and developmental plans in all parts of the Iraqi Republic.
15. Conferring some of his constitutional competencies to one or more of his deputies.

1. The judiciary is independent and is subject to no other authority save that of the law.
2. The right of litigation is ensured to all citizens.
3. The law determines the way of court formation, their levels, jurisdiction, and conditions for the appointment, transfer, promotion, litigation, and dismissal of judges and magistrates.

1. To be member of the Revolutionary Command Council or Vice-President of the Republic or Minister, a person must be Iraqi by birth, born of two Iraqi parents, by birth also.
2. It is inadmissible for Members of the Revolutionary Command Council and Vice-Presidents of the Republic and Ministers, during their term of office, to pursue any private professional or commercial work or to buy any State property or to sell or exchange with the State any of their own properties.

1. The rules of this Constitution are enforced till the Permanent Constitution is promulgated.
2. This Constitution cannot be modified except by the Revolutionary Command Council by a two-thirds majority of its members.

1. Laws are published in the Official Gazette and are put into force, effective the date of publication, unless otherwise stipulated.
2. Laws have no retroactive effect, unless otherwise stipulated. This exception does not include penal laws, tax laws, and fiscal fees.