Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American RevolutionariesIn Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the “system” is in disorder—if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. |
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... voters, or recipients of the leadership of our representatives. We, ordinary people, were also supposed to run things ourselves. Having heard so many people's feelings of powerlessness in relationship to really engaging our liberties, I ...
... voters, or recipients of the leadership of our representatives. We, ordinary people, were also supposed to run things ourselves. Having heard so many people's feelings of powerlessness in relationship to really engaging our liberties, I ...
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... voters and to learn to claim their constitutional rights. We know that regulations restricting voting rights proliferated in the South as a consequence. Is it a coincidence that at the same time the tradition of making sure such ...
... voters and to learn to claim their constitutional rights. We know that regulations restricting voting rights proliferated in the South as a consequence. Is it a coincidence that at the same time the tradition of making sure such ...
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... voter can play a direct role in the process, that an individual has the right to (not the obligation or duty to) petition the “member” to get a law passed, changed, or repealed. But there is no practical explanation whatsoever of how an ...
... voter can play a direct role in the process, that an individual has the right to (not the obligation or duty to) petition the “member” to get a law passed, changed, or repealed. But there is no practical explanation whatsoever of how an ...
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Contents
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We are required to speak freely | 91 |
We Have a Duty to rebel Continually | 105 |
ordinary People are supposed | 125 |
americans Cherish the rule of Law | 141 |
a New american revolution | 209 |
DriviNG CHaNGe | 215 |
become the Media yourself | 221 |
Produce New Media | 235 |
Protest | 245 |
staging a Protest | 251 |
How to speak in Any Public Context | 260 |
organize a town Hall Meeting | 271 |
america establishes No God | 157 |
americans Deliberate with | 173 |
Liberty is Universal america Cannot | 189 |
Become the leaders of America | 283 |
CreAte orCHANge | 293 |
organize a National HearingAnnette warren | 300 |
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