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— Nawal El Saadawi"The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family."
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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