Morocco

Above is a picture of Morocco.  Morocco is a country that is located in North Africa.  Morocco is a has constitutional monarchy with elected parliament.  Like many countries currently, Morocco is undergoing changes in its government.  Spurred my movements of the people Morocco is adopting a new constitution. 

While I was living in the dorms, I didn't have access to a newspaper daily.  I enjoy reading the news so I had an email sent to me from the New York times.  But, I also wanted to read more about current events close to home.  I like Waterloo Courier for that reason.  It covers the local news well but also covers national and world news.  You can stayed up to date on world events often by looking in your local newspaper! There are often even pictures online to go with the article so you can have a nice visual in your mind while reading the story.

This article about Morocco I found under the world section on the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier website. The article states that tomorrow, Friday, there will be a vote to pass the new constitution.  The constitution supposedly includes more democratic changes.  The new constitution, in response to many pro-democratic movements, is to give rights to women and minorities and increase the powers of the parliament, and judiciary.  This would therefore diminish some of the power of the king.  However, as the article states some people believe is more merely a stunt and the King still holds the majority of power.  Many people claim that the political advisers around the king hold most of the power still and the change in the constitution will not address this.  Others are happy just to see some progress being made.  No one is really claiming this will solve all the problems but it could be a step in the right direction to give more power to the people.  

I think it would be difficult for countries with an at least somewhat stable economy and government to make lots of drastic changes.  Many people are often happy with the current government so to make drastic changes could upset people.  I think in this case however, there are enough citizens that are wanting changes to be made the King will hopefully relinquish his powers to make Morocco a more democratic nation.