Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Magic Town
  • Who Speaks for Me?
  • Out of the Cave?
  • New Beginnings
  • A Voice from Rhode Island
  • What Should Representatives Do?
  • The Most Natural and Simple Idea
  • Counting People Equally
  • Deliberation: Thinking Through the Issues Together
  • Participation
  • Avoiding Tyranny: The Energy That Reforges Democracy
  • Small-Scale Democracy
  • The Founders' Vision
  • The Anti-Federalist Dissent
  • "Like a Burglar": Informal Processes of Reform
  • Bryce's Prophecy: Government by Public Opinion
  • Gallup's Answer
  • Opinions and Pseudo-Opinions in the Echo Chamber
  • A Rational Public?
  • The American Process: A Machine That Transforms Itself
  • Whose Declaration of Independence?
  • All Men? From Douglass to Lincoln versus Douglas
  • From Paper Rights to Voting Rights
  • The Quest for Voting Equality
  • The Declaration of Sentiments
  • Whose America? How Do We Come to Support It?
  • America's Town Meeting of the Air
  • Toward Civic Engagement
  • Airing the People's Agenda
  • The deliberative poll: bringing deliberation to democracy
  • Appendix. The first deliberative poll: summary of results
  • Notes
  • Index.