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In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm
over a crisis in citizenship and lay out a powerful agenda for
reform. The book s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice
Sandra Day O Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary
Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael
Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth
Andrew, Mark Bauerlein and more. Their message: To remain America,
our country has to give its kids a civic identity, an understanding
of our constitutional system, and some appreciation of the amazing
achievements of American self-government. But we are failing. Young
Americans know little about the Bill of Rights, the democratic
process, or the civil rights movement. Three of every four high
school seniors aren t proficient in civics, nine of ten can t cut
it in U.S. history, and the problem is only aggravated by
universities' disregard for civic education. Such civic illiteracy
weakens our common culture, disenfranchises would-be voters, and
helps poison our politics."
At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian
philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He
proposed to restructure the English Poor Law, a set of laws for the
relief of poverty first codified under Queen Elizabeth. Bentham's
plan was to dispense poor relief through a national network of
workhouses (the National Charity Company) constructed on the basis
of his famous Panopticon architectural principle and coordinated
through a single centralized administrative system. Charles F.
Bahmueller analyzes the ethical, sociological, economic, and
political aspects and implications of Bentham's proposal.
Emphasizing that Bentham sought constantly to eliminate contingency
from social life, Bahmueller shows how his scheme was a revealing
harbinger of the modern welfare state. The National Charity Company
shows us eighteenth-century politicians, economists,
administrators, and reformers wrestling with the problems of
distributive justice, economic instability, and repressive
socioeconomic modes of organization that are central to
contemporary political debate. The poor must be fed and clothed and
employed-but they must also be ruled, from Bentham's point of view:
they must, above all, be controlled. This book reveals tensions
between order and freedom, paternalism and individualism, and
social security and market forces that are of undeniable relevance
to modern life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1981.
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm
over a crisis in citizenship--and lay out a powerful agenda for
reform. The book's unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary
Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael
Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth
Andrew, Mark Bauerlein and more. Their message: To remain America,
our country has to give its kids a civic identity, an understanding
of our constitutional system, and some appreciation of the amazing
achievements of American self-government. But we are failing. Young
Americans know little about the Bill of Rights, the democratic
process, or the civil rights movement. Three of every four high
school seniors aren't proficient in civics, nine of ten can't cut
it in U.S. history, and the problem is only aggravated by
universities' disregard for civic education. Such civic illiteracy
weakens our common culture, disenfranchises would-be voters, and
helps poison our politics.
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