Abstract
The creative state, about which I wrote in 1937, is one in which its citizens take a positive rather than a negative orientation toward the opportunities of representative government. Creativity is the use of imagination, insight, and synthesis to solve complex problems which defy solution if they are approached segmentally. Creativity is also innovative, a break with the bureaucratic past, as demonstrated by a number of writers in a number of fields Beveridge in science, McClelland in psychology, Koestler in literature, and many others but I will not stop here to review what they have concluded.** For a number of reasons the concept of the creative state is more appealing today than it was 35 years ago. The theory of representative government is undergoing a searching criticism and change. Consider, for example, Holton Peter Odegard's book, The Politics of Truth. Or the need to find a reconciliation of the newer and older
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