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Living Democracy, Brief Texas Edition
ISBN: 9780132320801 | 0132320800
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Living Democracy gets students to participate in learning, in the classroom, and in change. The book& rs" s young and energetic author team cares deeply about student learning and student engagement.& Lead author Dan Shea founded the Center for Political Participation and his experiences working with students in the classroom and in the center inspired him to team up with co-authors Joanne Connor Green (Texas Christian University) and Christopher E. Smith (Michigan State) to write an American Government text that truly inspires students and hel... MORE
| Foundations of American Government | |
| Preface/Walkthrough | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Authors | |
| American Government: Democracy in Action | |
| American Democracy and the Individual Citizen | |
| The Unique Democracy of the United States | |
| Themes of This Book | |
| Citizen Participation in Democratic Government | |
| Pathways of Acti... MORE | |
| Pathways of Action | |
| Active Students and Local Air Pollution Laws | |
| Pathways Profile | |
| Diversity in American Society | |
| Citizen Participation and Pathways: The Example of Abortion | |
| Change and Stability in American Government | |
| Sources of Stability | |
| Pathways Profile | |
| The Political Culture of Our Neighbor to the North | |
| Conclusion | |
| Early Governance and the Constitutional Framework | |
| The Cry for Liberty, Equality, . . . and Slavery? | |
| The Nature of Government and Politics | |
| Types of Governments | |
| Economic Systems | |
| Early Governance in America | |
| Pathways of Action | |
| The Sons of Liberty | |
| The American Revolution | |
| Pathways Profile | |
| Thomas Paine and the "Common Sense" of Democracy | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Colonial Experience and the Pathways of Change | |
| Pathways Past and Present | |
| Tiimothy McVeigh's Revolution? | |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| Limitations of the Articles of Confederation | |
| Shays's Rebellion: An Alternative Look | |
| The Constitutional Convention | |
| The Great Compromise | |
| The Three-Fifths Compromise | |
| The Sectional Compromise | |
| The U.S. Constitution | |
| The Struggle over Ratification | |
| The Federalist Papers | |
| The Anti-Federalists' Response Other Challenges Faced by the New Nation A Second Revolution Jacksonian Democracy | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Institutions of American Government | |
| Federalism No Child Left Behind and the Ongoing | |
| Debate over Authority | |
| Why Divide Authority in the First Place? | |
| The Evolution of Federalism in the United States | |
| Before the Civil War | |
| Pathways Profile | |
| Pathways of Action | |
| The Civil War and the Failure of American Politics | |
| Federalism after the Civil War | |
| Federal Power: The Supreme Court and the New Deal Recent | |
| Trends in Federalism | |
| The New Deal and Cooperative Federalism | |
| The Great Society and Creative Federalism | |
| The Changing Nature of Federal Grants | |
| Pathways of Action | |
| Mandates to Prompt Change New Federalism | |
| Pathways Past and<$$$> | |
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