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From Constitutional Tables to a
Constitutional Convention
Robert Cavalier
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Director, Program for Deliberative Democracy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, EE.UU.

"We exhibit at present the Novel and astonishing Spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness" -George Washington, 1788

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n May and June of 2014 hundreds
of Mesas de Iniciativa Constitucional (MIC) took place across Cuba,
marking the first modern grassroots
effort to employ the principles and practices of deliberative democracy at the

local level with an eye toward achieving
a "constitutional consensus" at the national level. Cuban political scientist
Manuel Cuesta Morua, of the Nuevo
País Platform, guides this movement.

Constitutional Initiative Table. La Lisa, Havana

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