"A government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws, and regulations.[citation needed] Typically, the term "government" refers to a civil government or sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches). The size of governments can vary by region or purpose. Growth of an organization advances the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have fewer officials than typically larger organizations such as multinational corporations which tend to have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated, so does the need for formal policies and procedures." - Thomas Page

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2 3 -9 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped... , https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped... , 1 -10 Lost Republic Lessig https://www.google.com/search... - Thomas Page

3 Justice pstp 12 -24 http://www.npr.org/2010... , 3 -9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , economic justice http://www.cesj.org/thirdwa... , 4 -28 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

4 Forms of Government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://friendfeed.com/xixidu... , 12 -22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

5 Political Systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , ps4-27 http://www.gotoquiz.com/politic... , pstp 10 -22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

6 Economics ps8-5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , ( Taxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... pstp 10 -4 http://thesocietypages.org/socimag... ) , pstp 8-9 http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010... - Thomas Page

7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 5 -19 Reconstruction Amendments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 14th [ Citizenship and civil rights - Apportionment of Representatives - Participants in rebellion - Validity of public debt - Power of enforcement - Thomas Page

8 Misc. Reclassify later; Volition: http://www.singinst.org/blog... , http://www.singinst.org/upload... , http://ieet.org/index... , ( Coruption: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010... , TEDxBerlin - Peter Eigen - 11/30/09 http://www.youtube.com/watch... Failing Governance ( 1 -10 http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011... ) ) ; Government 2.0 ; http://radar.oreilly.com/2009... pstp 11 -15 http://www.youtube.com/watch... , http://video.google.com/videopl... , [ 5 -25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Simpler: The Future of Government http://www.brookings.edu/events... http://www.booktv.org/Watch... - Thomas Page

9 ps6-28 Should Democrats Issue a New "Contract with America"? http://www.davidbrin.com/contrac... - Thomas Page

10 Misc. Reclassify later; Fillibuster; #pstp gov 1 -28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.senate.gov/artandh... , http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-par... , Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate (Chicago Studies in American Politics) by Gregory Koger Permalink: http://amzn.com/0226449653 , Review "Filibustering offers an impressive theory of obstruction that undercuts conventional wisdom on the filibuster and provides a more complete analysis of this important topic than has previously been available either in one source or collectively." - Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University" Product Description In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislative process as a game played by the rules in which votes are the critical commodity - the side that has the most votes wins. In this comprehensive volume, Gregory Koger shows, on the contrary, that filibustering is a game with slippery rules in which legislators who think fast and try hard can triumph over superior numbers. "Filibustering" explains how and why obstruction has been institutionalized in the U.S. Senate over the last fifty years, and how this transformation affects politics and policy making. Koger also traces the lively history of filibustering in the U.S. House during the nineteenth century and measures the effects of filibustering - bills killed, compromises struck, and new issues raised by obstruction. Unparalleled in the depth of its theory and its combination of historical and political analysis, "Filibustering" will be the definitive study of its subject for years to come. , Book TV: Sarah Binder - Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the U.S. Senate http://www.youtube.com/watch... , ps2-16 http://www.democracynow.org/2010... , pstp ref gov - Thomas Page

Sanders: Oratory not a filibuster http://www.upi.com/Top_New... - Thomas Page

'A Process That Is Running Out of Control': The New Nullification Crisis http://www.theatlantic.com/politic... - Thomas Page

Bicameralism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Bicameralism (psychology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Supreme Court of the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Supreme Court of the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... : Judicial interference in political disputes 3 -11 http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct... , Failing to protect individual rights , Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Campaign finance reform in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -26 http://www.motherjones.com/politic... , 5 -5 sort Land of the free. " , 4 -22 sort No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Negotiable social contracts? The power to DENY NEGOTIATION ? Using political power to impede and corrupt the legislative process of the law of the land? Financial power conversion to political power? Faith - Freemarkets - Statistics - Science - resolving with reason / forms of bad faith * unwillingness to reason / violence -- nonviolence , Knights of the Roundtable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Rule of Law , government should be of laws not of men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013... http://wonkette.com/514178... , http://www.nytimes.com/2013... , 7 -27 FISA The court is staffed by eleven judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve seven-year terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Is the Filibuster Unconstitutional? http://billmoyers.com/2012... , 8 -28 http://www.theatlantic.com/politic... , 11 -12 http://www.nytimes.com/2012...& - Thomas Page

Representative democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.constitution.org/jsm... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013... http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013... , 9 -23 sort http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013... - Thomas Page

Sedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws. obstruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.thefreedictionary.com/obstruc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... , Media modulation of Obstructionism? Orwellian "Orwellian" is an adjective describing the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ... , sort Participants in rebellion 5 -19 Reconstruction Amendments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 14th [ Citizenship and civil rights - Apportionment of Representatives - Participants in rebellion - Validity of public debt - Power of enforcement , 5 -25 PBS - CONSTITUTION USA http://www.pbs.org/tpt... http://video.pbs.org/video... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , sort [ 5 -25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Simpler: The Future of Government http://www.brookings.edu/events... http://www.booktv.org/Watch... - Thomas Page

Protest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -28 Letter to the editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6 -26 How to write to Your representatives http://usgovinfo.about.com/od... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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Global governance or world governance is a movement towards political integration of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region. It tends to involve institutionalization. These institutions of global governance - the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the World Bank, etc. - tend to have limited or demarcated power to enforce compliance. The modern question of world governance exists in the context of globalization and globalizing regimes of power: politically, economically and culturally. In response to the acceleration of interdependence on a worldwide scale, both between human societies and between humankind and the biosphere, the term "global governance" may also be used to name the process of designating laws, rules, or regulations intended for a global scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6 -26 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated { http://friendfeed.com/citizen... [ simple solutions are suspect [[ Unwarranted Influence ? [[[ Innovation, evolving improvements in performance ...? { Statistics ? Moneyball http://friendfeed.com/citizen... 12 -9 if all of the American citizens -- knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in today http://www.ted.com/talks... ~ Look, the world has changed from analog to digital. And it's time for our mathematics curriculum to change from analog to digital, from the more classical, continuous mathematics, to the more modern, discrete mathematics -- the mathematics of uncertainty, of randomness, of data -- that being probability and statistics. [[[[[[ 12 -10 He traces how moderation evolves from an individual moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores the deep affinity between political moderation and constitutional complexity. What Moderation Means ... ? - Thomas Page

Civics http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Civil_service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Public_administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Public_administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] The separation of powers system is designed to distribute authority among several branches — an attempt to preserve individual liberty in response to tyrannical leadership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... throughout history. The executive officer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is not supposed to make laws (the role of the legislature) or interpret them (the role of the judiciary). The role of the executive is to enforce the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judicial system. The executive can be the source of certain types of law, including decree or executive order. Executive bureaucracies are commonly the source of regulations. In this context, the executive branch of government consists of leader(s) of an office or multiple offices. Specifically, the top leadership roles of the executive branch may include: - Thomas Page