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The Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Democracy PrimaryThe Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Democracy Primary
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9th - 10th
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1470L
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The Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Democracy

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Read Ralph Nader's views on taking back power from self-serving institutions and the political system. This article written in 1992 sets forth ten arguments of how democracy has been abused and the means by which citizens can regain their rightful participation in their own governmental requests to candidates on basic principles to be used in their campaigns and in public office.

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direct democracy, oligarchy

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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