Welcome to FirstPrinciples.US T he content of this site is now available in a print version and an e-book version . The title of both is:
First Principles: Self-governance in an Open Society
The intent of this website and its companion print and Kindle e-book editions is to investigate, from a big picture perspective, the state of American, and by extension, democratic representative government around the world. In the U.S. there are two telling polling realities. The numbers are not from any single survey, but reflect averages over the past several years. The first is the percentage of U.S. adults who believe what they hear, see or read in the mainstream media--a figure that rests between 2