Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has passed into history, the most pertinent question is what kind of authority will emerge in its place. To go even further would be not only to ask what kind of authority but to include what type of relationship between the state and the individual that it would have. Coming into the twenty-first century with no democratic history and little familiarity with constitutional freedoms will make this transition a difficult one for the Iraqi people. In order to establish a fertile democratic nation and a just free-market economy, the transcendent dignity o…
