Politics is relevant and participation matters.
Politics is relevant and participation matters.
This is a preassembled package of We the People, Essentials Edition (978-0-393-67967-0) and The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics (978-0-393-28365-5).
A combination of classic and contemporary readings, featuring a debate-format section in each chapter.
Politics is relevant and participation matters--now more than ever
With verve and acuity, the heroics and the critics of Athenian democracy are brought to bear on today's politics, revealing in all its glories and its flaws the system that still survives to execute the power of the people.
Hence, the question remains: if “we the people of the United States ... ordain and establish” the Constitution, ... doing so requires an attempted resolution of the enduring debate in US politics between those for whom the Union is a ...
As politicians and judges argue over the original intent of our country's founding fathers, the American Founding itself continues to inspire a prodigious amount of research and commentary, reflecting a...
On Madison and public opinion, above all see Colleen A. Sheehan, James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Government (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), chs. 3–5; Robert W. T. Martin, Government by Dissent: Protest, ...
George W. Bush's use of the war on terror to justify the creation of a unitary executive, acting outside and even against the law, was a source of praise and...
What we find is that people live very different lives depending upon what financial and social resources they have . ... people into classes and not just accept them as individuals has been one of the enduring debates in sociology .