ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the bill was prepared and put together by the Constitutional Council, how it was received, and why Parliament tried to prevent it from being adopted. The purpose is to review the making of Iceland's post-crash, partly crowd sourced constitution. A key promise given by the post-crash government in early 2009 concerned the constitution, which, drawn up in haste at the time of Iceland's full separation from Denmark in 1944, Parliament had promised to revise ever since without being able or willing to keep its promise, partly because it was not impelled by crisis to do so. Parliament reacted to the Supreme Courts decision by offering the elected Constitutional Assembly representatives appointment to a Constitutional Council. The criticisms of the constitutional bill did not really matter, because the people accepted it in a national referendum called by Parliament. To launch the process, Parliament appointed a seven-member Constitutional Committee, consisting mainly of academic experts from a range of fields.
