“The Nature of the State” is a lengthy excerpt from CIVITAS: A Framework for Civic Education, a landmark civics teacher’s manual created by the Center for Civic Education in 1991 and used extensively in the United States and across the globe. This exclusive Tavaana translation includes exhaustive, thought provoking pedagogic guidelines for teaching the theoretical conceptions of the state, the historical development of various models of the state, the idea of constitutional popular government and liberal democracy, sources of Marxist theory, the characteristics of totalitarian and fascist regimes, the ideology and history of nazism and the spread of democracy in the late twentieth century, as well as debates over democracy and the democratic state. A series of activities is provided to help teachers convey the concepts and the histories to students of various ages.
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