Created to accompany American Government: Freedom and Power, Sixth Edition or Sixth Brief Edition, by Theodore J. Lowi and Benjamin Ginsberg, this reader is tied directly to issues presented in the text. Over half of the essays in this major revision are new. Each chapter includes at least one historical essay, on contemporary essay, and a point/counterpoint pair of essays addressing the same question as that posed in the "Debating the Issues" box in the corresponding text chapter. A brief headnote introducing each of the readings explains its significance and its precise relationship (including page reference) to the major concept introduced in American Government