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Brian Baird: We still lack a solution that is either constitutionally valid or functional in practice.

On the recordJuly 22, 2009
We still lack a solution that is either constitutionally valid or functional in practice.
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Brian Baird
Washington

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Baird points out the absence of a valid constitutional mechanism for crises.

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