All Iraqis are equal in their rights without regard to gender, sect, opinion, belief, nationality, religion, or origin, and they are equal before the law. Discrimination against an Iraqi citizen on the basis of his gender, nationality, religion, or origin is prohibited. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of his person. No one may be deprived of his life or liberty, except in accordance with legal procedures. All are equal before the courts.

Article 13 then lists the individual rights of each Iraqi:

(A) Public and private freedoms shall be protected.

(B) The right of free expression shall be protected.

(C) The right of free peaceable assembly and the right to join associations freely, as well as the right to form and join unions and political parties freely, in accordance with the law, shall be guaranteed.

(D) Each Iraqi has the right of free movement in all parts of Iraq and the right to travel abroad and return freely.

(E) Each Iraqi has the right to demonstrate and strike peaceably in accordance with the law.

(F) Each Iraqi has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religious belief and practice. Coercion in such matters shall be prohibited.

(G) Slavery, the slave trade, forced labor, and involuntary servitude with or without pay, shall be forbidden.

(H) Each Iraqi has the right to privacy.

There is also a provision akin to the U.S. Fourth Amendment, which prohibits searches without a warrant, along with a right to a "fair, speedy and open trial."

Property rights also are guaranteed in the constitution: "Each Iraqi citizen shall have the full and unfettered right to own real property in all parts of Iraq without restriction."

The only reference to individual ownership of arms is a provision about militias in Article 27:

"Armed forces and militias not under the command structure of the Iraqi Transitional Government are prohibited, except as provided by federal law. "

Individual gun ownership, then, can easily be restricted by use of statutory law.

A leading gun-rights organization strongly disagreed with leaving out a right to bear arms.

"It's a very big mistake," said Erich Pratt, director of communications for Gun Owners of America. "What an interesting contrast to what our Founding Fathers thought."

Pratt emphasized America's founders believed it crucial for citizens to have the right to own arms to prevent what Iraq has endured for decades: tyranny.

"The right of people to keep and bear arms was the best check to tyranny" the Founding Fathers put into place, Pratt told WND.

Angel Shamaya, founder and executive director of Keep and Bear Arms decried what he sees as a lack of religious freedom along with the absence of gun rights.

"They've set up a situation where religious persecution can continue," he said, referring to the fact Islam has been established as the official state religion.

Shamaya says the banning of militias will hinder minority religions.

"Militias have enabled minority religions to defend themselves from the majority religion," he noted.

Shamaya also criticized the "search and seizure" provision of the new plan: "The don't have a Second Amendment, and they don't have an adequate Fourth Amendment.

"It's a tin-pot dictatorship waiting to happen," he said. "If the U.S. Constitution is the best there is, why doesn't the Iraqi constitution more accurately emulate ours?"

Nancy Beck, a spokeswoman with the U.S. State Department emphasized the new blueprint is temporary and for transitional purposes only.

"One of the thing we have to keep in mind is it's a transitional administrative law," she told WND. "It will allow the new interim government to have a structure."

Said Beck, "They're still working on a permanent constitution."