Table of Contents
A Note on the American Dream
Introduction
PRINCIPLE #1
REDUCE DEMOCRACY
SECRET PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1787, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #2
SHAPE IDEOLOGY
POWELL MEMORANDUM, LEWI S F. POWELL JR. , 1971, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #3
REDESIGN THE ECONOMY
“AN END TO THE FOCUS ON SHORT TERM URGED,” WALL STREET JOURNAL , JUSTIN LAHART, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #4
SHIFT THE BURDEN
HENRY FORD ON WHY H E DOUBLED THE MINIMUM WAGE HE PAID HIS EMPLOYEES, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #5
ATTACK SOLIDARITY
THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS , ADAM SMITH, 1759, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #6
RUN THE REGULATORS
PROSPERITY ECONOMICS: BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR ALL, JACOB S. HACKER AND NATE LOEWENTHEIL, 2012, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #7
ENGINEER ELECTIONS
CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY 21, 2010, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #8
KEEP THE RABBLE IN LINE
“FORD MEN BEAT AND ROUT LEWIS UNION ORGANIZERS; 80,000 OUT IN STEEL STRIKE; 16 HURT IN BATTLE,” NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 26, 1937, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #9
MANUFACTURE CONSENT
ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, LITERARY, DAVID HUME, 1741, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #10
MARGINALIZE THE POPULATION
“TESTING THEORIES OF AMERICAN POLITICS: ELITES, INTEREST GROUPS, AND AVERAGE CITIZENS,” MARTIN GILENS AND BENJAMIN I. PAGE, 2014, AND OTHER SOURCES
Notes to Primary Source Material