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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...upon its so- cial state. They have, moreover, a sure and uniform manner of operating upon society, affecting, as it were, generations yet unborn. Thro... ...bounds than in Massachusetts. Such are the principal differences which the systems of county and town administration present in the Federal States. We... ...ourse was hit upon by the legislators, which brought together by force two systems theoretically irreconcilable. The principle of the independence of ... ...ctions shall be inalienable. The practical consequences of these different systems may easily be perceived. An attentive observer will soon remark tha... ...because they had studied the laws, or because they were prohibited from co-operating in the work of legislation. Five hundred years ago the English no... ...are no longer any classes, or those which still exist are composed of such mobile elements, that their body can never exercise a real control over its...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...e ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses oc- cur. By operating steadily to call out certain acts, habits are formed which functi... ... it, control has in this view a flavor of coercion or compulsion about it. Systems of government and theo- ries of the state have been built upon this... ...f the physiological basis, to lessen with growing years. The instinctively mobile and eagerly varying action of child- hood, the love of new stimuli a... ... future, rewards for their present sacrifices. Everybody knows how largely systems of pun- ishment have had to be resorted to by educational sys- tems... ...lly unintellectually, snatched away. But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the orga... ...ormation here has a technical meaning dependent upon the idea of something operating from without. Herbart is the best historical representative of th... ...attentive only to the education of its ruling elements. A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurrin... ...r counterparts in formulations which have been made in classic philosophic systems; and that they involve the chief problems of philosophy—such as min...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ttinger Professional Staff Member Madeleine Blot Counsel Antwion M. Blount Systems Engineer Sam Brinkley Professional Staff Member Geoffrey Scott Brow... ...ngley never received any type of engagement order, the Andrews pilots were operating weapons free—a permissive rule of engagement.The President and th... ...suing secular as well as religious studies, were products of edu- cational systems that generally devoted little if any attention to the rest of the w... ... leader (emir) of al Qaeda.This organi- zation’s structure included as its operating arms an intelligence component, a military committee, a financial... ...st for a time, although he continued to aid a group of Islamist extremists operating in part of Iraq (Kurdistan) outside of Baghdad’s control. In the ... ...tion they were expected to analyze.The poor state of the FBI’s information systems meant that such access depended in large part on an analyst’s perso... ...hmed al Ghamdi, one of the earliest operatives to transit Dubai, acquire a mobile phone account so that the operatives could use that number as a trav...

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