1 Iatrogenesis is a very common, often preventable, hazard of hospitalization and is associated with significantly longer hospital stays, increased patient mortality and cost.  The true extent of the problem of iatrogenesis is not well understood. What we know of the problem may be but the tip of the iceberg.
A constitutional democracy is a government under law in which coalition and majority rule is balanced by minority and individual rights, and in which most rights are balanced by responsibilities - including the responsibility of each citizen to study the history of constitutional government in order to illuminate it in ways that no definition ever ...
Democracy, in Lincoln's famous formulation, means government of the people, by the people, and for the people.. But this begs the question of who constitute the people.. The Revolution had given birth to a republic rhetorically founded on liberty but resting economically in large measure on slavery.