Spring 2004 Midterm

United States citizens often believe that politics are only for the elite with superior educations and grand amounts of money. The authors of Texas Politics Individuals Making a Difference suggest otherwise in numerous occasions. Our constitution was drafted so that power is distributed not only amongst government, but also amongst citizens. The "peaceful, typical" citizens of Hickory Creek, Texas were underestimated by their city government. When the Hickory Creek Council was considering an indoor-outdoor soccer …

…try and get more people involved by addressing the issues on a more personal basis. Door to door canvassing is not seen as much as it used to. Everything now is done through mass media and electronically. Politics is, as Lasswell simply described it, "who gets what, when, and how." The beauty of America and our Constitution is that we actually have a say so in distributing those resources, as our authors have effectively demonstrated.