Parliament members gather, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 at the National assembly in Tunis. Tunisia’s assembly began to vote Friday for the new constitution that its members have spent the last two years writing, a crucial step in the North African nation’s transition to democracy. The assembly’s 217 members need to approve each of the new document’s 150 articles with a simple majority vote before passing the entire document with a two-thirds majority. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)