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The idea that there is a model pattern which makes a state a good or true state has affected practice as well as theory.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “The idea that there is a model pattern which makes a state a good or true state has affected practice as well as theory.”
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Dewey argues that the belief in a model state influences both political theory and practice.
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