Reading Packet: Click to download the entire packet as a PDF

Readings:

• Who Wins When the Majority Rules? - by Marla Brettschneider
• Your Most Important Role in a Democracy:Thinking for Yourself - by Vanessa Urch Druskat
• What is Democratic Education? - by David R. Hiley
• Kill the Messenger: Why the Living Arts Reflect the True State of a Democracy (A play in one short act) - by David Kaye
• Can Democracy Create World Peace? - by Alynna Lyon
• Can the United States Export Democracy? - by Mary Fran T. Malone
• Democracy and Capitalism: Oil and Water? - by Nick Smith
• In a Democracy, Are Some Citizens More Important than Others? - Sharyn J. Potter
• Rights and Health: Democracy's Dilemma in the United States - by John W. Seavey and Robert J. McGrath II
• Why is Democracy Elusive in the Middle East? - by Jeannie Sowers
• What is Democracy, and is it the One? - by Scott Smith

Student Essays:

• Are you voting for Democracy? - by Andrew Long
• Freedom and Svoboda: What Does Freedom Mean - by Andrew D. McKernan
• Democracy as a Verb: An Action Word - by Lauren Schweizer