We the People Essentials 12th Edition Textbook

This book has been and continues to be dedicated to developing a satisfactory response to the question more and more Americans are asking: Why should we be engaged with government and politics? Through the first 11 editions, we sought to answer this question by making the text directly relevant to the lives of the students who would be reading it.

[…] this new Twelfth Edition shows more than any other book on the market (1) how students are connected to government, (2) why students should think critically about government and politics, and (3) how Americans from different backgrounds experience and shape politics. (We the People Essentials 12th Edition; Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell; W. W. Norton & Company [2018]; Preface: Page xxi)