Even with a bill of rights, Iraq’s new constitution is primarily based on Islamic codes.

Iraq’s interim constitution says that Islamic law may serve as a source for legislation, though it will not be the law’s main underpinning as some religious conservatives had hoped.A bill of rights similar to that in America guarantees the right to free speech and freedom of religion.

A college education can be very costly in the United States, especially at a private school. Rising costs have led more and more families to borrow money to help pay for college. In 1993, less than one-half of graduates from four-year colleges had student loans. Now two-thirds of them do. Their average loan debt when they graduate is 19,000 dollars. At public universities, the average is 17,000 dollars.