<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have used Benjamin Barber's "Strong Democracy"<div><br></div><div>-Jesse Drew</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 28, 2009, at 9:09 PM, George Siemens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi,<br>
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What books or texts would list members suggest as “must reads” on topics of democracy, equality, and personal liberty in relation to the state? I’m familiar with the usual crowd: Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Hamilton, Paine, Tocqueville, Schumpeter, etc. <br>
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George</span></font>
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