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Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,…

Civics Class, 1948: Life Without Government vs. With It

A 1948 page from Magruder's American Government textbook contrasting life without and with government, a high school civics lesson that still sparks debate today.

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Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,…

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