21.   But a more open approach to the arms embargo might have brought the same results without expanding Iranian influence in the region and short-circuiting American democracy.

22.   Bush will try to convey the virtues of American democracy to students at Tsinghua University, according to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

23.   But in American democracy, patience is not a virtue.

24.   But more broadly, using reporters as agents offends and confounds the principles of American democracy.

25.   But the basic issue in the dysfunction of American democracy concerns the crisis of representation.

26.   But the machines are not all that ails American democracy.

27.   But the problem has not gone away, and remains a vivid and embarrassing rebuke to American democracy.

28.   But the conventions also served to show how much American democracy is frittering its vigor, even as the familiar old procedures are observed.

29.   But what would the bill, as shaped in the Senate, wrought in the functioning of American democracy?

30.   Campaign finance is a profound problem for the survival of American democracy.