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Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Clinton Rossiter

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Clinton Rossiter
Age: 52 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 18
Died: 1970
Died: July 11
Historian
Political Scientist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III
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