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<div style="font-size:85%"> CW seeks objective discussion of civic issues.  It is a reaction to the political process as it has become today - filled with unsupported assertion, fact presented out of context, fabrication presented as fact, calculated to elicit an emotional reaction, all to serve political agendas.  This is a nonpartisan complaint. CW prefers political advocacy that places objective truth above agenda.  It's a tall order that will require the participation of an expanding group of contributors.
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Civicwiki

Building Political Integrity

CW seeks objective discussion of civic issues. It is a reaction to the political process as it has become today - filled with unsupported assertion, fact presented out of context, fabrication presented as fact, calculated to elicit an emotional reaction, all to serve political agendas. CW prefers political advocacy that places objective truth above agenda. It's a tall order that will require the participation of an expanding group of contributors.

How to Contribute

This is a wiki (just like Wikipedia), so it's easy to contribute your knowledge and insights.
The pages of Civicwiki are currently only sparsely populated. Anyone with interest can become a contributor, but . . .
We need a few people
who wish to help further CW's mission as a major contributor, applying their writing skills to a topic that interests them.
Please browse the site and read about CW.

What government do we want?

How do we want our government to behave and how do we want to be governed? More and more the answer to that question is becoming increasingly important to our daily happiness and well being. Providing you with the information needed to answer that question is the main goal of CW. Every CW topic category contributes to that answer. However, the question is approached directly within:
What Government do We Want.



Featured article

Inalienable Rights
Belief in the existence of a set of rights vested in every person is fundamental to the concept of liberty. It is the central premise of the founding of the United States of America. Such rights have been referred to as 'natural', 'God-given', and 'inalienable'.
America's Declaration of Independence contains brief, but compelling, words about "unalienable rights". It is a radical document - but then the founders of the United States were not conservatives - they were radicals in the cause of liberty.(Full article...)


The constitution of America

The United States began as a society determined that liberty is fundamental to life. That premise, carefully adopted by a newly formed nation, would provide freedom, prosperity, and security for many millions over the next 230+ years. Liberty as a preeminent value has never been common. It was not commonplace then and America's impact can only be understood by examining our heritage, political debates, and evolution of government. We created something new - a constitutional republic with democratic input and a novel approach to government as a protector of the rights of 'the people', put in place because we understood that the coexistence of liberty, prosperity, security, and internal peace is fragile. We bet the future of our country on the strength of those protections. And America became the most successful of countries if personal freedom and well being, are the measures.

  • CW is an analysis of why that government appeared when and where it did, what made it strong, how it has produced its wealth, and how such a diverse society was able to live together peaceably. CW is also about how our government has evolved--occasionally for the good, but becoming increasingly intrusive in our lives, how that harms us all, and what we can do about it now. These discussions are spread across the following topic categories:
A discussion of the drivers behind America asserting independence when it had so recently been proud to be English subjects.
The unique nature of America's Consitution and how it reflected what colonial Americans wanted from government.
When we pursued freedom, it was very often economic freedom we were after.
How do we want government to behave today?

Please also read about the CW mission.




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