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Direct Democracy: What if the People Ran the Country?
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| Title | Direct Democracy: What if the People Ran the Country? |
| ASIN | 1583228748 -
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| Category | Social Reform |
| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Modified | Craverguy - September 21, 2009 11:18am |
| Description | “Who is sovereign?” Alexis de Tocqueville asked. “He who commits the acts of sovereignty.”
But when people in a democracy become alienated from the process of government, they no longer are in sovereign control. Citizen advocate Ralph Nader and sovereignty expert Gregory Fossedal examine how America’s representative democracy, in combination with the two-party system, has become a kind of perpetual motion machine, ignoring issues and failing at government. Drawing from examples in contemporary politics and popular culture, Direct Democracy presents the case for citizens to take back control of their country through a bold system of national initiative and referendum: citizen law-making via direct votes by the people based on the Swiss model of direct democracy. With this one change, America can reawaken the activism and involvement of a working democracy and truly become a nation of self-government again. |
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