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| − | * The Issues viewed in the light of the vision of liberty that created our country. (category: [[Portal:The Issues|The Issues]]) | + | * [[Portal:The Issues|The Issues]] viewed in the light of the vision of liberty that created our country. (category: [[Portal:The Issues|The Issues]]) |
* Providing informed citizens and a forum for developing objective information, better understanding and, thus the political momentum that is needed to govern effectively. 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. | * Providing informed citizens and a forum for developing objective information, better understanding and, thus the political momentum that is needed to govern effectively. 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. | ||
Revision as of 21:02, 28 February 2014
CW is about:
- How this new government took shape, what made it strong, and how it has evolved. (categories: Inalienable Rights and Federalism and Democracy)
We began as a nation of people determined that liberty was fundamental to life. We created something new in government - a democratic, federal, republic that had novel protections for "life, liberty, and property." Understanding that liberty is fragile, we bet the future of our country on the strength of those protections. Benjamin Franklin famously answered when asked what the 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, wellbeing, and prosperity are the measures.
CW is about:
- The Issues viewed in the light of the vision of liberty that created our country. (category: The Issues)
- Providing informed citizens and a forum for developing objective information, better understanding and, thus the political momentum that is needed to govern effectively. 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.
CW will be effective to the extent that people like yourself get involved.
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