Civicwiki:Introduction

America's democratic, federal, republican form of government is now 227 years old. No other current government has survived as long without radical change. 227 years ago, the country had just fought a war for independence. It was a nation of people determined that liberty was fundamental to life. The men who shaped the new government were scholars who went to great effort to create something new in government to protect liberty and to ensure justice for all citizens in a way that would endure. Even among them, there were skeptics as to the stability of their government they had just put together. Benjamin Franklin famously answered the question as to what kind of government the 1787 Constitutional Congress had given the country - "A republic, if you can keep it." We have kept it. And America became the most successful of countries if personal liberty and wellbeing are the measure.
Civicwiki is about how this new government took shape - which are discussed under the categories of Inalienable Rights and Federalism and Democracy.

Today, however, we are also a nation divided by our views on big issues. We are divided because we hold differing philosophies and have differing views on the role of government.
Civicwiki is also about the big issues.>>