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| − | 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.
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| − | <br>''Civicwiki is about how this new government took shape'' - which are discussed under the categories of [[Portal:Inalienable Rights|Inalienable Rights]] and [[Portal:Federalism and Democracy|Federalism and Democracy]].
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| − | 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.
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CW is a project that seeks to bring objective thought to civic issues. It is a reaction to the political process as it has evolved from our country's beginnings into what it has become today - a process filled with misinformation to serve political agendas. CW would prefer political advocacy that places objective information above power seeking. Our agenda is to establish an environment of anonymous civil discourse that helps CW readers become immune to misinformation and be able to see through the fog of political rhetoric.
(see also about CW)
We began as a nation of people determined that liberty is fundamental to life. We created something new in government - a democratic, federal, republic that had novel protections for "life, liberty, and property." Because we understood that liberty is fragile, we bet the future of our country on the strength of those protections. When asked what the Constitutional Convention had given the country, Benjamin Franklin famously answered - "A Republic, if you can keep it." We have kept it. And America became the most successful of countries if personal liberty, wellbeing, and prosperity are the measures.
At our beginning, America debated how to build a stable and strong country with people of diverse interests. Today's issues are no less important to the stability and longevity of our government. Their importance seems heightened because we now seem deeply divided. Politicians and factions divide us by misinforming us to get elected. It is a cynical play for political power at the expense of the health of our society. Therefore:
- CW is about providing informed citizens and a forum for developing objective information, better understanding and, thus the political momentum that is needed to govern effectively.
- and about the issues viewed in the light of the vision of liberty that created our country. (category: The Issues)
CW will be effective to the extent that people like yourself get involved.
You can learn more about Civicwiki here.
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Today, many people use the term 'big government' to describe what they believe to be government overreach and intrusion in our daily lives at every level.
Wikipedia defines it “as a derogatory term generally used by political conservatives, laissez-faire advocates, or libertarians to describe a government that they consider to be excessively large, corrupt and inefficient, or inappropriately involved in certain areas of public policy or the private sector”. But, a recent Gallup poll found that 72% of us – including 56% of Democrats and 78% of independents – believe it to be a big threat. The basic problem is, Government has this innate dilemma of balancing between serving and interfering.(Full article...)
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