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Internet giant Google launched an archive of the world's constitutions during Monday in a new online initiative designed to help countries emerging from disagreement otherwise political crises. Interestingly, while launching the new site -- www.constituteproject.org -- in New York, Google officials said the objective was to help people drafting constitutions to see what other countries have done in the past.

Google Ideas director Jared Cohen expressed that they wanted to take the physical constitutions as well as they wanted to have them organised online, make them universally available online and make them useful for all the different governments going through a constitutional process. He added these constitutions and government documents represent an important opportunity for these countries.

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