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Stand Up Citizen
by Patrick Moore
As we approach the 2020 election, a podcast for ordinary citizens to help sort through our fractious politics, and their distorting effect on how we make our choices.. A non-partisan look at American first principles - not an academic exercise, but a reminder on what our founders intended and expected of us as citizens. Founding documents will refresh our civics IQ, so we can look critically at our current issues. Think of Stand Up Citizen as civics for grownups.
Episodes
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Republic At Risk
Broken norms and bad faith are interfering with the proper functioning of our government. How can we tolerate this in a time of pandemic and economic calamity?
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Warnings from History
Using several sources, we explore the kinds of actions and trends that should alarm us about the advance of tyranny. Both recent books such as How Democracies Die and On Tyranny, and works a few decades old are used to inform us on how to be vigilant.
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Informed Citizen
In our current political and cultural climate we need citizenship education more than ever. We look at what our founders had to say about the need for informed, educated citizens in the republic they created for us
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On the Electoral College
We review the founders design for the electoral college method of electing the president. Selections from Hamilton's presentation of the electoral college give us insight into how the process fit in the entire Constitutional scheme. I hope this will allow us to look critically at how our process,...
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Corrosive Bad Faith
We explore the effect of bad faith actions by our political officials and candidates on the health of our body politic, and ask the question whether the candidate who wins their election, but resorts to bad faith, deceit, misstatements, has properly received citizen consent. Is their election...
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The Case Against Citizens United
Using the principles that informed and directed the founding generation, we analyze the Citizens United ruling that led to far more corporate money in campaigns. By applying the Madison's concerns about factions, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and the conflicts inherent in...
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On Civic Virtue
We explore the importance of civic virtue, public virtue, to our founders when they created our republic. Then the comments of other luminaries on virtue, government and citizenship. Finally, we ask how our state of the nation has preserved, or abandoned, those original intentions for civic…
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The Secret of Freedom is Courage
The founders of our country are much in the news of late. Even the Federalist Papers are getting lots of air time. Let's remind ourselves that our founders tried to solve the challenge and threat of faction by encouraging a diversity of interests and views in our republic. But gerrymandered safe...
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A Debate for the Ages
The Constitution is published after months of hard work, and there is lots of push back. Opposition to many of its aspects comes even from leading citizens, including Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry. Essays opposing the Constitution appear within only a few days after it is published…
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Rule of Law - Constitution
Setting the stage for the creation of the Constitution, this episode gives background and context for how the framers created our Constitution. It is about the times and events that affected them, what influenced and concerned them, and some of the main challenges they wanted to handle when…
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First Principles
We take a tour through the principles our founding generation set out for our country. There is much more to the Declaration of Independence that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. We look at the many influences on the founders of our country so we get a good sense of the backdrop of their...
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Looking Back to Our Founders
In this first episode, we look back on our history and refresh our memory of the American experience compared to other nations. A brief review of the history of other major nations over our 243 year history allows us to see how we have fared. We set our objective for these podcasts to consult our...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
As we approach the 2020 election, a podcast for ordinary citizens to help sort through our fractious politics, and their distorting effect on how we make our choices.. A non-partisan look at American first principles - not an academic exercise, but a reminder on what our founders intended and expected of us as citizens. Founding documents will refresh our civics IQ, so we can look critically at our current issues. Think of Stand Up Citizen as civics for grownups.
HOSTED BY
Patrick Moore
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As we approach the 2020 election, a podcast for ordinary citizens to help sort through our fractious politics, and their distorting effect on how we make our choices.. A non-partisan look at American first principles - not an academic exercise, but a reminder on what our founders intended and...
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Stand Up Citizen is created and hosted by Patrick Moore.
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