"The most Christian King, Louis XVI, was condemned to death by an impious conspiracy and this judgement was carried out. We shall recall to you in a few words the ordering and motives of this sentence. The National Convention had no right or authority to pronounce it. In fact, after having abolished the
monarchy, the best of all governments, it had transferred all the public power to the people -- the people which, guided neither by reason nor by counsels, forms just ideas on no point whatsoever; assesses few things in accordance with the truth and evaluates a great many according to mere opinion, which is ever fickle, and ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess, ungrateful, arrogant, and cruel ... "
Pope Pius VI, Pourquoi Notre Voix, 17 July 1793
Point taken, but I did mention a constitution. Mob rule in the Arab world would not be much help to the world without a strong, centralized defense of secular democratic rule, perhaps the Turkish model.