Books with title How the Government Works

The book provides an engaging introduction on how Canadas parliamentary system of government works. The distinctions between head of state and head of government are explained, while introducing readers to the roles of the monarch, the governor general, the prime minister, and the opposition parties. Parliamentary models of government at the provincial level, as well as in other countries, are also included.

The extermination of undesirables by the government has been underway for fifty years. They’ve nearly succeeded...In a post-democratic United States, a new government called the Second Founding Fathers has created a society that classifies its people as desirable or undesirable.Aria, Ethan, and Zeke are three teenagers being held in a compound for undesirables located in Chicago. When it is learned that they are next for extermination, they enlist the help of a government soldier who offers them a chance to escape.But they won’t be alone…A lone survivor group who has fought for the survival of the undesirables since the beginning, the Resistance, is out there hiding. It’s up to them to find it.The stakes for restoring order and justice to the country could not be higher. Can the three join forces with the Resistance and stop the government and its rule once and for all, or is it already too late?For fans of the Divergent, Maze Runner, and Hunger Gamesseries, The Government will be a new favorite among teen readers!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to rise up in protest ...When a handful of bull-market bullies and corporate profiteers amass vast fortunes while 35 million citizens languish in poverty ...When average Americans decide they're sick of the burden of credit card-fueled lifestyles, tired of sending their children to violent, decaying schools, and sick and tired of sending corrupt, ineffectual career politicians back to Washington year after year to pander to their richest soft-money contributors . . .When a majority of registered voters no longer have enough faith in our fat-cat "leaders" and their obsolete parties even to sbow up at the polls to replace them ...When these truths become self-evident ...Then the time has come to overthrow the government.Arianna Huffington has earned a reputation as one of America's best-known and most independent political commentators, but this book will surprise even the most ardent followers of Beltway politics. In its pages she breaks away from the party-line platitudes of cynical Republicans and hypocritical Democrats alike and shines a harsh light on the real crises of contemporary America. Our democratic system has broken down, she contends. The two political parties have become indistinguishable. Their policies are feeble, their motives self-serving, their campaign tactics ruthless and insulting. And, as they kneel at the altar of profit, our nation's foundations are crumbling. Decay is everywhere: The physical decay of our cities and schools is matched by the moral decay of a drug industry that is allowed by politicians to push Prozac on children, a media industry that looks only for the next scandal, and a political industry that hypnotizes its candidates with polls, paralyzes them with smear tactics, and seduces them with carefully camouflaged cash.How to Overthrow the Government, then, is Huffington's call to arms: a challenge to the average American to seize the government back from the special interests that now hold it hostage and restore control to the people themselves. From campaign finance reform to new voters' rights to grassroots Internet activism and civil disobedience campaigns, she calls for fresh and radical solutions to this national crisis--and offers a directory of local and national activist groups to contact that can help make it happen.For if we are to preserve and protect our more perfect union, We the People must stand up and fight for our country--before it's too late.

Powerful and enlightening. How to Overthrow the Government is an impassioned call to arms from one of America's sharpest and most independent commentators. In its pages Huffington breaks away from the party-line platitudes of Republicans and Democrats alike while challenging Amerians to rise up and take back their government. From the power of special interests to the ravages of the war on drugs, Huffington offers radical yet viable strategies for reclaiming our nation from the corporate and political powers that hold it hostage. For, as she argues, if We the People are to preserve and protect our more perfect union, we must stand up and fight for our country -- before it's too late.