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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 03/04
Constitutions and Accountable Governments In the Arab World
Nathan Brown
December 2003
Abstract
It is an American convention in giving public lectures to ease the audience into weighty topics with a joke. In this case, however, I will begin confessing that my entire lecture might be perceived as a joke. Let me explain by posing a question: What do the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the governor of Connecticut, and I all have in common? This question sounds like the beginning of a bad joke in which I figure unflatteringly in the punch line. I hope that my talk today does not provide that punch line.
