Published on 14 August 2026 – Claude AI compared 3 proposed federal constitutions for Lebanon from Iyad Boustany, Eddy Abawat & Selim Zakhour
A comparative analysis of three proposed federal constitutions for Lebanon – by Iyad Boustany, Eddy Abawat and Selim Zakhour – judged on how each one actually works rather than how it describes itself: who appoints whom, where taxes and residual powers sit, and who has the last word. It assumes a worst-case setting in which control of the central state is contested among Lebanon's four communities.
The report scores each text for coherence and for effectiveness against the federalist objective. It ranks the Boustany Constitution first, as the most genuinely bottom-up design, followed by Zakhour's and then Abawat's proposal, and it recommends spot-checking article numbers against the original texts.