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The Democracy Covenant: A Timeless Dream and a Promise Broken: Democracy's Travail

The Democracy Covenant: A Timeless Dream and a Promise Broken: Democracy's Travail

Fields, Ronald Joseph

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN13: 9798434081740
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 4 2022
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
America's Declaration of Independence proclaimed three principles upon which American democracy was founded: that all persons are created equal; that every person is entitled to certain unalienable rights; that government is instituted to secure those rights. These are the indispensable principles of legitimate government, and the core of the American promise.

But now America's democracy is in a struggle with the authoritarian personality, both externally and within. This book is a common citizen's search for the reasons; it is a broad search, for there are no simple answers to why the promise of freedom and equality, and government of, by, and for the people has failed for so many; and is rejected by so many. One conclusion, however, is certain: The failure is not in the ideals of democracy, it is in the fear that generates undemocratic ambitions; America is not a people's democracy because it is not a people's economy.

Subjects: Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Covenant, Unalienable Rights, Life, Liberty, Freedom, Truth, Justice, Created Equal, Common interest, Patriotism, Primal fear, Amygdala, Selfishness, Empathy, Neoliberalism, evolution.

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