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Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
“We don't want just the veneer of a democracy”
The U.S. wasn’t the first democracy, nor is it the first nation to have issues with it. Struggles are inherent to the democratic process, experts explain, and America is at a critical turning point. “Very few countries have had stable democratic rule for a long time,” says Princeton Historian David Bell. “Democracy can be very fragile.”
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Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of...