DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL

About the Book

The great wartime leader, Winston Churchill, once remarked, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Democracy on Trial recounts the history of this progressive form of governance while comparing it to a competing form: absolutism. Today we see the results of this conflict: flourishing civilization on one hand and crushing despotism on the other. Dr. Lasso, from his own bitter experiences with the despotism of Panama’s dictator, shows us how today’s democracy was won and how it must be vigilantly earned. Dr. Lloyd Muller Historian

About the Author

Dr. Ricardo Lasso graduated with honors at Law School (in Panama), approved his post graduate at London School of Economics, and with a scholarship awarded, completed comparative law studies in England. He is the eldest in a family of four doctors: himself a doctor of jurisprudence, a geneticist and two physicians. He became an attorney and law school professor until he had to flee from persecution by Panama’s dictator. After his departure as a political refugee, he took up permanent residence in the U.S. with his wife and three children. Apart from Democracy on Trial, he has published The United States of the North….and the Dis-united States of the South and USA vs General Noriega – a Friend or a Foe? In addition, he has written numerous legal, historical and political science essays.