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Essay Archive - Declining Trust in Our Government
Declining Trust in Our Government
Is the American people's trust in our government declining? According
to most people, it definitely is. Recent polls make this argument very
valid. In 1995, the Princeton Survey Research Associates conducted a
telephone interview of 1514 random sample adults. In this interview,
people were asked how much of the time they trusted in the federal
government to do the right thing. Twenty-one percent said most of the
time and seventy-one percent said only some of the time. When asked the
same question of their state governments, the results were only slightly....
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