Those Self-Evident Truths: Democracy in the Making 1215-1863

ISBN 10: 0980012503 ISBN 13: 9780980012507

Verlag: Cascade Saga Pr, 2007

In Those Self Evident Truths, Ted Magnuson invites the listener to take in the historical panorama of 'democracy in the making.' In our daily lives, it is too easy to become overwhelmed with the trifles and challenges we face every day. But through the lens the centuries as we reflect on people working together in committee we can see the great strides that have been made from the days of 'The Divine Rights of Kings,' to the present, to the day of the representative democracy we too often take for granted. While the future and even the present is in great flux, as we look back in history we can see great strides have been made. I'm talking about the Magna Carta in the days of King John and the barons of Runnymede, about Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the founding documents of America. About the resolve of Abraham Lincoln who believe 'that nation not perish.' With such lineage behind us, how can we fail to meet the challenges of our own day? In this recording, I have provided a short background of the context of these documents as well as the documents themselves. I realize there is far more detail than what is provided here. Yet by telescoping the time in this manner, one may also see the remarkable distance societies have traveled in a little over 600 years.

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