Record details

• ISBN: 1571973532
• ISBN: 9781571973535
• Physical Description: 619 pages ; 27 cm
• Publisher: Raleigh, N.C. : Ivy House Pub. Group, [2003]
• Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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United States. Constitution.
United States > Politics and government.