Suppose that you are writing a constitution for a new democracy in a large country with many social and ethnic cleavages and a per capita income of about $6,500 in 1985 ppp dollars. You would like to do everything you can to try to ensure the consolidation of your democratic regime.
1. What other goals should you have in mind when writing your constitution?
2. What specific institutional form would you choose? Would you choose a federal or unitary system? Proportional representation or a single-member district plurality electoral system? Would you choose a parliamentary or a presidential form of democracy?
3. When answering these questions, give a sense as to how you arrived at your answers. Also indicate why you think the choices that you've made are compatible with each other.