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Introduction—The Politics of Civic Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2004

Joel Westheimer
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa

Extract

“Democracy is not a silent business.”—Anthony D. Romero, American Civil Liberties Union

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Symposium
Copyright
© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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