Everyday law in plain words

The Good Citizen

Everyday Law and Peaceful Change

The rules you live under every day, explained in plain words: your lease, a promise someone breaks, a ticket, a town rule you think is wrong. And how to change a bad rule the right way.

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Kindle edition available now. Paperback coming soon.

This book is for you if

  • You rent a home, run a small business, or sign agreements you don't fully understand.
  • You want to know your rights, and your duties, without paying a lawyer to explain the basics.
  • A town rule or a law seems wrong, and you want to change it peacefully.
  • You teach civics at home or in a classroom and want plain, real-life examples.
  • You are about to vote for the first time, or for the first time in a long time.

What's inside

  1. Law Is Not the Enemy of Freedom — It Is Its Frame
  2. The Law You Live In: Ordinances, Contracts, Property, Crime
  3. Contracts: The Promises the Law Will Enforce
  4. Property and the Rules That Protect It
  5. Criminal Law in Plain Terms
  6. How Laws Actually Keep Order (and What Happens Without Them)
  7. The Citizen's Real Power: Changing the Law Peacefully
  8. Petition, Advocacy, and the Ballot
  9. Community Change from the Ground Up
  10. The Duties That Come with the Freedoms
“Citizenship is a verb because it must be practiced.”FROM CHAPTER 10

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Not legal advice. This book explains how law works in general terms, for learning. Laws differ from state to state and town to town. For a legal problem of your own, speak with a licensed attorney or your local legal aid office.

Know the rules. Change them the right way.

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