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Democracy, Dissent, and the Danger of Turning Constitutional Words into Hashtags (opens the original)
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“We are living in a dictatorship.”“Democracy is dead.”These are some of the most common phrases we hear during political protests today. Whether the issue is a government decision, a court judgment, an election dispute or police action, political conversations often quickly move toward these extreme labels.But it raises an important question: are words like democracy and dictatorship still being used as serious political concepts or have they become slogans used to strengthen a political argumen
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