democracy

Contains episodes eleven and twelve of "Freedom: A History of US," which looks at America in the early twentieth century, covering the Wright brothers' invention of the airplane, joining the fight in World War I, women's suffrage, and the 1920s; as well as the stock market crash, Great Depression, New Deal, and joining the fight in World War II.

"A . . . look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world--and a road map for rescuing our own"--Dust jacket.

Contains essays discussing the United States place in the changing geopolitical environment covering foreign policy, military and limitations of Western democracy.

Many pieces of important legislation are passed because of compromises and deals struck between lawmakers. The U.S. Constitution was created through a complex system of compromises, and this process continues in American government today. Readers get an inside look at this part of the political system as they discover historical and modern examples of influential compromises and deal.

"Examines the history and evolution of democracy as a political system"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose efforts to establish a democratic government and ensure freedom for her people in Myanmar have been recognized around the world.

Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. "Democracy and Leadership", first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order. Babbitt rejects all deterministic philosophies of history, whether they be the older type found in Saint Augustine or Bossuet, which tends to make of man the puppet of God, or the new type, which tends in all its varieties to make of man the puppet of nature. He offers a compelling critique of unchecked majoritarianism and addresses the great problem of how to discover leaders with standards.

A government is a group of people who provide rules and authority for the society they serve. Readers will learn that there are many different kinds of governments. Examples of governments around the world frame a discussion of why it is important that citizens have a say in who governs them and the decisions that get made. Activities encourage further discussion.

A boy bunny named Marlon Bundo who lives with his grandfather Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, falls in love with another boy bunny.