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Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
Fareed Zakaria
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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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