Why not a constitutional republic?

Submitted by Scott Ingersoll (United States), Dec 6, 2003 at 14:37

As much as I approve of George Bush's foreign policy, I cannot understand why, with all the available commentary from our founding fathers and other great conservative philosophers on the dangers of democratic forms of government, Mr. Bush is pursuing the establishment of democratic forms of government instead of constitutional republics in the middle east.

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