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Stand Up Citizen
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
12 episodes
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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Season 1
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Episode 13
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20:01
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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...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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21:44
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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Season 1
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Episode 10
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19:34
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. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:57
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 pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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20:24
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 Dec...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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17:01
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 preserv...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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22:04
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 diversit...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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20:19
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 C...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:52
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 s...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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32:29
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 founder...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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27:33
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 fa...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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20:52