When I agreed to participate in a Vote 16 Summit on Parliament Hill, I expected to hear all the reasons for and against allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal, provincial and/or federal elections. And I did hear that. Much stronger, however, were concerns about the state of democracy in Canada. Concern came from…
Several years ago, a good friend in North Carolina suggested during a phone conversation that I write a book on citizenship. At the time I was revising my first book, Political Visions and Illusions, whose second edition was released five years ago this month. I decided to take him up on his suggestion, submitting a…
Few news reports have infuriated me as much as the one coming out of Alabama, where the state legislature’s plan to redraw congressional districts was recently approved by a divided United States Supreme Court. Since 1790 the federal government has conducted a census every 10 years. Based on the resulting population statistics, each state is…
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