The United States government
Subtitle: a citizen's inquiry into what it is and might be
By: William B. Ayars.
Publisher: Ivy House Pub. Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Raleigh, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
Subjects: United States.; United States -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The two sides of human nature; title: Evolution of the concept of government; title: A history of the U.S. government; title: The simultaneous arrival of wealth, television, and the career politician; title: The need for mountains of money and predictable changes in tax policy; title: Paternalism and votes; title: Top-down big government and groupthink; title: Assumptions of the elite class and personal power seeking; title: The public's abiding faith in government and history's most elaborately contrived lie; title: The grand deception and the mass of flimflammed citizens; title: The Constitution and limited government; title: Democracy and the bottom-up approach to governing; title: Education and the public-spirited citizen; title: The open society and honesty in government; title: A good tax system and the future taxpayer; title: Leaders and good ideas; title: Creating participating citizens and putting democracy into practice; title: Volunteering and making a contribution to good government; title: Retrieving the importance of the family and guiding its future in a democracy; title: On war becoming peace; title: On the neighborhood bully becoming a citizen of the world; title: On the old United Nations becoming a new one for the age of reason; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix: Preliminary draft of a constitution of the United States of America.