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Donald Craig Mitchell: “How do we justify to the Cambodians that that is a better form of campaign or democracy when the majority of the people…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
How do we justify to the Cambodians that that is a better form of campaign or democracy when the majority of the people did not determine who should be our next President?

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Questioning the legitimacy of U.S. democracy compared to Cambodia's situation.

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