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RESTORE OUR DEMOCRACY: The Case for Equality and Justice Kindle Edition

by Werner Neff (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The gifts we inherited from our Founding Fathers are The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights: guidelines for peacefully living together. They designed the democratic principles, inspired by the experiences of ancient Athens and Rome, based on values and needs, to guide our leaders in good times and bad. These gifts are the foundation of our country.

Our Democracy is eroding and slowly drifting away from the values and principles which are the heart of our democracy. We must reevaluate leadership and revisit our commitments to the American people, rebuild trust and recreate vision for a peaceful America with equal opportunities for all.

We have also inherited unhealthy ideals and habits from our ancestors, ideals that hold us hostage in the past, stuck in entitlement, racism, dominance, and inequality. Their weaknesses and the deep hurt some of them caused are still impacting us today. Many of these ideals no longer serve us. The time has come to heal old wounds.

Restore Our Democracy is a reflection on history, political philosophy, and the current reality. Neff takes a raw look at how our unconscious loyalty to the past continues to impact our society today. The book revisits the original values and principles of Democracy and offers the reader a call to action.

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Werner Neff holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's Degree in Economics. Deeply passionate about Democracy, political science, and economics, Neff has researched and written several books on social economy and politics during the past 10 years. RESTORE OUR DEMOCRACY fulfills on his long-time dream of writing a book on the principles of Democracy, as his contribution to the future. Neff, a Swiss citizen, married to an American, has been living in the mountains of Colorado for over 10 years now. He loves the American people. It is his fondest wish that the history and democratic principles, as well as his conclusive call for action, will help strengthen our resolve to return to the fundamental values of Democracy.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08H1JK1FM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (August 30, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1724 KB
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 107 pages
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    Werner Neff received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, and his Master’s degree in Economics at Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland. He earned his professional wisdom as an executive in the hospitality industry and later, as an executive at a large Swiss bank.

    Neff, deeply passionate about democracy, political science, and economics, is now fulfilling on his long-time dream of researching about the origin, principles, and values of democracy. He concludes that the shift and erosion of political values have shaped the American social economy and the current gap between the wealthy and the working people. In the past ten years he has written several books on American democracy.

    Neff, a Swiss citizen married to an American, is living in the mountains of Colorado, enjoying outdoor sports, classical music, and writing.

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Rita Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars I’m ordering this book...
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2022
...based on the fact that the only objection to it is someone who is misrepresenting Ben Franklin, the meaning of a republic, and the meaning of a democracy.

Ben Franklin is a founding father, who strongly supported democracy. We have a republic, and the kind we have in the USA is by absolute necessity, intrinsically is a representative democracy.

If it was not a democracy, it would not be a republic and if it was not the kind of republic that it is, it wouldn’t be a democracy, but it is.

Some people on the far right fringes of society seem convinced that democracy is a bad word, and something that we are not, but the facts simply do not support such a view. So since the book interested me and this was the only reason anyone gave it a bad review, I’m buying it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great summary on Democracy, the underlying documents of the USA and how impacted by current events
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2021
I thought this book did a great job summarizing the underlying the forms of Democracy, a review of the core documents that the USA's Democracy is based on, and how recent and current events have been in clear conflict of the Democratic principles of this country. The book discusses some of the current issues our Democracy faces and discusses the voting suppression and restrictions in some additional detail. In general, I really appreciated the succinctness and the straight to the point style of this book.
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jimmi
2.0 out of 5 stars thinly veiled hit piece on conservative values...
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024
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It says Democracy but early on it starts espousing Socialistic Democracy values Like his home country of Sweden. Promoting free speech and open voting but then starts re-riding Conservative gerrymandering and in the same paragraph justifying democratic ballot harvesting for the "under "represented. why he had to dive into money, personal religious beliefs, and economics who can guess. The book ends up with a push-poll disguised as a quiz followed by a website probably designed to collect email address, but seems shut down... save your money
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vincent
5.0 out of 5 stars Great job
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
Great book
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DeWayne Hamilton
1.0 out of 5 stars America is a Republic not a democracy
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020
I don’t know how these books keep getting published. You can’t restore something that doesn’t exist. Our founding fathers were very concerned about these very thoughts. Ben Franklin said,”that a good definition of democracy is when two wolves and a sheep decide what is for dinner.” When Ben Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention he was asked what kind of government was created he said,” a Republic if you can keep it”. The problem is we can’t keep the republic if we keep publishing books that don’t recognize that fact.
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