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Publisher
Ivy House Pub. Group
Language
English
Pages
619

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Subjects

Politics and government, United States

Places

United States

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The United States government: a citizen's inquiry into what it is and might be
2003, Ivy House Pub. Group
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Table of Contents

The two sides of human nature
Evolution of the concept of government
A history of the U.S. government
The simultaneous arrival of wealth, television, and the career politician
The need for mountains of money and predictable changes in tax policy
Paternalism and votes
Top-down big government and groupthink
Assumptions of the elite class and personal power seeking
The public's abiding faith in government and history's most elaborately contrived lie
The grand deception and the mass of flimflammed citizens
The Constitution and limited government
Democracy and the bottom-up approach to governing
Education and the public-spirited citizen
The open society and honesty in government
A good tax system and the future taxpayer
Leaders and good ideas
Creating participating citizens and putting democracy into practice
Volunteering and making a contribution to good government
Retrieving the importance of the family and guiding its future in a democracy
On war becoming peace
On the neighborhood bully becoming a citizen of the world
On the old United Nations becoming a new one for the age of reason
Conclusion
Appendix: Preliminary draft of a constitution of the United States of America.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Raleigh, NC

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.973
Library of Congress
JK275 .A93 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
619 p. ;
Number of pages
619

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3575166M
ISBN 10
1571973532
LCCN
2002113542
OCLC/WorldCat
53944309
Library Thing
3088866
Goodreads
4919478

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