Instead, personal ambitions aside, the session has become a forum for working out the dynamics of an infant democracy.

The debate, cutting into old wounds, exposes a fundamental problem for Romania's infant democracy.

In brief remarks, he praised the vote as a victory for Ukraine's infant democracy.

Its infant post-Communist democracy chose extreme PR, and in its late-1991 elections paid the price.

Haiti was economically desperate long before last September's coup overthrowing the country's infant democracy.

But their cynical ploy backfired in ways that other infant democracies would be wise to study.

"Hamilton protected an infant democracy," Christina argued.

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised that he intends to make press freedom a cornerstone of Russia's infant democracy.

At the same time, serious threats to the stability of the infant democracy also had to be confronted.

A day inside shows the joys and growing pains of an infant democracy and its parents.