Practice Tests. Each chapter includes a list of Learning Outcomes for the chapter, practice tests with questions in multiple-choice and fill-in formats designed to reinforce information in the text and help students develop a greater understanding of American government and politics, and the answers to all questions.
McCraw, Thomas K. Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. ———. “Rethinking the Trust Question.” In Regulation in Perspective, ...
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
-- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald
Examines the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, in multiple forms, in multiple locations.
The book is the collective work of thirty of the most perceptive writers, practitioners, scientists, educators, and journalists writing today, who are committed to moving the political conversation from the present anger and angst to the ...
Government by the People
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For courses in American Government Influence students to act by exploring American politics through the Constitution Revel® Government by the People: Structure, Action, and Impact provides a constitutional anchor for critical thinking that ...
In Philadelphia, representatives of the states met to create a new system of government. The document they produced, the U.S. Constitution, remains the framework for our government more than 225 years later.
Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades.