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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.
Stand Up Citizen
On Civic Virtue
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Patrick Moore
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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 virtue to have a key influence on our republic