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PLEA learning resources explain how to create and change laws. Find them and order your copies at teachers.plea.org.
How can referendums and plebiscites be used to change laws?
What happens when people reject oppression?
What do municipal governments do and how can you influence them?
How does democracy support the rule of law and how does the rule of law support democracy?
Bartlett, T. (2010). Ireland: A History. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, K. L. (2014). Ireland’s History: Prehistory to the Present. London: Bloomsbury.
Damrosch, L. (2014, May 14). Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World. Kansas City Public Library public lecture.
M. Bragg (Host). Swift’s A Modest Proposal. In Our Time. London: BBC Radio4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3...
Lockwood, T. (2014, October 28). Is Eating Babies Really So Terrible? The Dark Genius of Jonathan Swift. Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, University of Washington. https://youtu.be/f5tkFcaqDrk
O’Toole. Fintan. (2010). Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Phiddian, R. (1996). Have you eaten yet? The reader in A Modest Proposal. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 36(3), 603-621.
Phiddian, R. (1996). Political arithmetick: accounting for irony in Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, 9(5), 71-83.
Krugman, P. (2010, November 25). Eating the Irish. The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opi...
Gilens, M. and Page, B.I. (2014). Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens. Perspectives on Politics, 12(3), 564-581.
Silberstein, S.M. (Producer) & Kornbluth, J. (Director). (2013). Inequality for All [Documentary Motion Picture]. United States: The Weinstein Company.
