Forestalling a con-con.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)

From: The New American | Date: September 19, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Your cover story for August 22 on Iraq's constitution shows how fortunate we have been to have forestalled a new constitutional convention in this country. The wording of Iraq's Bill of Rights is illustrative of what we ...

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