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Author | : Gary L. Williams |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2024-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1035869691 |
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, victory in the American Revolution empowered its founding fathers to consider a glorious ‘revolutionary idea’: a democracy of inclusiveness and diversity for all. Yet, America’s revolution never meant to include the enslaved, who lived in small, dark squares of windowless slave houses. At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention of 1787, compromises perpetuated America’s ‘slave society’ based on free labour, benefiting its citizenry to the detriment of America’s slave row. For the next seventy-eight years, ‘America’s democracy’ permitted this vile system of slavery to continue. However, slave revolutions, revolutionary voices, and prayers persisted. As the smoke cleared from the battlefields of the American Civil War, Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) granted America a full Independence Day. The question remains to this very day whether the formerly enslaved and their descendants will ever fully receive the rights, reparations, and benefits of full citizenship in our American democracy. Revolutionary voices must continue to set an example for the entire world of the revolutionary idea that is democracy. The next 250 years will answer this question as America approaches its 500th anniversary.
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Democracy |
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Author | : Mark Kingwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781926845845 |
Download Unruly Voices Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new collection by the author of The World We Want, with essays on civility, public space, Obama, procrastination, suicide.
Author | : Clive Harber |
Publisher | : Education Now Publishing Co-Operative |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
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Addresses the important question of the relationship between education and democracy in four countries committed to a democratic form of government - Britain, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It argues for the development of a more robust democratic civil society and political culture and that education must play a key role in this. A key text for forward looking teachers at all levels, administrators and those interested in comparative education.
Author | : Marilyn Miller |
Publisher | : Rodale |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1635651883 |
Download Words That Built a Nation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When originally published in 1999, Words That Built a Nation was hailed for bringing together the United States’ most important historical essays, speeches, and documents into one accessible collection for kids. Now, this history lovers’ must-have is back, and it’s been revised, revamped, and expanded for the 21st century. From the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, the updated collection preserves the documents of the first edition and introduces the landmark statements that are impacting our nation today. With all new illustrations, a refreshed design, and complementary background information behind each of the documents, Words That Built a Nation is the ultimate tour of United States history, created to engage, inspire, and equip kids with the knowledge they need to change and shape their world. “This book is attractive and the presentation engaging.”—School Library Journal
Author | : Felton Earls |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674250729 |
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Compiling decades of fieldwork, two acclaimed scholars offer strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of their role as citizens. Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership of a psychiatrist and a neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton Earls and Mary Carlson embarked on a series of international studies that would recognize the voice of children. In Romania they witnessed the consequences of infant institutionalization under the Ceaușescu regime. In Brazil they encountered street children who had banded together to advocate effectively for themselves. In Chicago Earls explored the origins of prosocial and antisocial behavior with teenagers. Children all over the world demonstrated an unappreciated but powerful interest in the common good. On the basis of these experiences, Earls and Carlson mounted a rigorous field study in Moshi, Tanzania, which demonstrated that young citizens could change attitudes about HIV/AIDS and mobilize their communities to confront the epidemic. The program, outlined in this book, promoted children’s communicative and reasoning capacities, guiding their growth as deliberative citizens. The program’s success in reducing stigma and promoting universal testing for HIV exceeded all expectations. Here in vivid detail are the science, ethics, and everyday practice of fostering young citizens eager to confront diverse health and social challenges. At a moment when adults regularly profess dismay about our capacity for effective action, Voice, Choice, and Action offers inspiration and tools for participatory democracy.
Author | : Sidney Verba |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1995-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674942936 |
Download Voice and Equality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.
Author | : Bernard Murchland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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The author probes the minds of political thinkers to assess the condition of democracy in the modern world. In these conversations, he finds reasons for its continuing strength and its powerful alliance with capitalism. He also addresses challenges to democracy and the necessity to strengthen it.
Author | : James S. Fishkin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300072556 |
Download The Voice of the People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Philosopher and political scientist James Fishkin evaluates modern democratic practices, explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past and combines a review of ideas and experiments--including his own idea for a National Issues Convention that was adapted by PBS in January 1996--to legitimately rediscover the people's voice.
Author | : Kay Lehman Schlozman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691154848 |
Download The Unheavenly Chorus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining the current state of democracy in the United States, 'The Unheavenly Chorus' looks at the political participation of individual citizens - alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests - in order to demonstrate that American democracy is marred by ingrained and persistent class-based inequality.