On the recordNovember 3, 2010
Yes. If we were a parliamentary government, the government would have failed after Katrina. But we're not a parliamentary government. We're a constitutional government.
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Carville argues that the U.S. constitutional system provides stability that a parliamentary system would not have offered after a crisis.
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