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A collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson that demonstrate his views on freedom and the ideas that became the foundation of the Declaration of Independence.

Democracy - America has it and it seems like many other countries want it.

Presents a study of the U.S. Constitution in language that middle school students can understand and includes a glossary of terms and teacher's guide.

Presents a short study of democracy through the ages, and discusses what it is and how it works, and the problems and challenges that democracy often brings.

Mr. Dweebish, the new teacher at the Bear Country School, tries to explain to the class bully how democracy works.

Photographs and text discuss the concept of democracy as it has developed in America and abroad.

Election Day is a time for American citizens 18 years or older to exercise their right to vote.

On cover: His own words, with essays by America's foremost Civil War historians.

Presents various articles which discuss domestic problems in Russia, the prospects for democracy there, the threat Russia poses to the rest of the world, and U.

Traces the history of democracy, discussing how it was developed, how it works, why people are prepared to give their lives to achieve democracy, and how it has helped shape the history of the twentieth century.

Contains twenty-six essays that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to the U.

Examines the continuing problems with the electoral system in America, and maintains that politicians from both parties control the process through such things as location of election district boundaries, the number of voting booths at urban polling places, and English-only ballots.

Traces the roots of democratic rule from its origins in ancient Greece to its growing dominance in the Western world since 1945, and examines democracy as a concept, as a form of government and as a political value.

Chronicles the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the first foreigners to recognize and celebrate the grandness of the American project in the nineteenth century.

The authors maintain that the political far right and corporate ownership of the media influences what people see, hear, and understand about U.