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A 3 page review of three of the founding principles upon which our country is based. This paper traces the decay of one of those principles, the principle of citizen participation in government. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the right of the people to worship as they wished, equality of the people, and the right of the common citizen to participate in the affairs of government. Our
founding fathers wanted the freedom to live their lives as they thought best for themselves and their families. The first settlers made agreements to respect each others rights and
not establish mandatory arbitrary regulations which would deprive some citizens of their rights while affording additional rights to others. What they sought to establish was a democracy. Indeed
such a democracy, at least in a revised form, was established. Freedom of religion means that all religious beliefs are accepted
here. Equality of the people means that there are no preferences shown one race, ethnicity, or gender over the other. While there have been various stumbling points in
regard to each of these freedoms, our insistence that they be preserved has made us stronger over time. While our nation has actually grown more insistent on the first
two of the founding principles delineated above, it has suffered considerably in regard to the latter. We have, in fact, slipped far past the state where the common citizen
is involved in our governmental affairs. It is important to point out, of course, that our founding fathers never intended our
country to be a pure democracy. In a pure democracy every person eligible to vote must attend all the meetings where laws were made. There are no terms
which expire therefore one must attend these meetings for life. This method, a pure democracy, was simply not practical in early America. The designers of our government, therefore,
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