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Article: COLUMN: Iraq's constitution: Questions of liberalism and democracy
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- September 27, 2005
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Danny Kampf
University Wire
09-27-2005
(The Daily Colonial) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- If Iraq is to successfully become a liberal democracy, nothing could be more important than its constitution. While the Bush Administration has spent much of its political capital ensuring, in rhetoric at least, that no one forgets the importance of democracy in this bedrock of Iraqi jurisprudence, they are quick to forget the importance of liberalism.
First things first, the word liberal, in this case, does not refer to the politics of the welfare state -- or, in other words, being a member of the political left -- but instead refers to classical liberalism, which is defined as the preservation of individual ...