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Awakening a Forgotten Republic: Restoring the Soul of Liberty and the Duty of Self-Government (The Civic Formation Trilogy) - Softcover

Oliver, John

 
9798994140000: Awakening a Forgotten Republic: Restoring the Soul of Liberty and the Duty of Self-Government (The Civic Formation Trilogy)

Synopsis

A field manual for citizens who refuse to forget how freedom works.
Awakening a Forgotten Republic is both a journey through history and a call to recover the moral courage of citizenship.

From the Magna Carta to the modern surveillance state, John D. Oliver traces the long arc of liberty — and how it bends when free people forget the virtues that once sustained it. Rather than treating the American founding as a legend, he presents it as an unfinished apprenticeship, a civic craft that must be relearned in every generation.

Guided by a unique Two-Lane Framework that pairs historical narrative with personal reflection, Oliver invites readers to examine the Republic using the same standards the founders used: representation, justice, coercion, and consent.

Lane Checks, Country-Win reflections, and the vivid Three-Legged Stool of Citizenshipenlightenment, engagement, and self-reliance — turn history into a diagnostic tool that exposes today’s drift toward dependency, division, and administrative rule.

Blending the clarity of a field manual with the conviction of a moral argument, this book challenges citizens not to despair over decay, but to rediscover the power of local virtue, personal responsibility, and the everyday habits of self-government.

For students, leaders, and everyday Americans, this is a map back to first principles — and a reminder that liberty is not inherited by blood, but by renewal.

For those ready to begin the work, the Republic is waiting.

Written not by a scholar speaking down to citizens, but by a citizen waking up among them.

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