Republic At Risk

Republic At Risk

Author: Patrick Moore August 21, 2020 Duration: 20:01
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?

Patrick Moore hosts Stand Up Citizen, a series born from the noise of a modern election cycle but built for the long haul. It’s a conversation for anyone feeling adrift in today’s fractious political climate, offering a way to sort through the distortion that often clouds our choices. This isn’t about partisan scoring or dry academic lectures. Instead, Moore returns to American first principles, revisiting founding documents and intentions not as relics, but as a practical lens for examining current issues. The idea is to refresh our collective civics IQ-to remember what was originally expected of a citizenry. Each episode aims to untangle a contemporary debate by grounding it in historical context and foundational ideals, providing listeners with a clearer, more critical framework for understanding the news. You’ll find the discussions are rooted in government and history, but always with an ear toward how that knowledge informs our present moment in politics. The overall tone is one of reasoned examination, a non-partisan effort to step back from the daily fray. In that sense, this podcast serves as a reminder that being an engaged citizen requires both understanding our past and standing firm in our present, equipped with more than just talking points. It’s about building a sturdier foundation for your own civic participation, one conversation at a time.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 12

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Podcast Episodes
Warnings from History [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:44
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 i…
Informed Citizen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:34
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
On the Electoral College [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:57
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 Constituti…
Corrosive Bad Faith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:24
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…
The Case Against Citizens United [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:01
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 pri…
On Civic Virtue [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:04
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…
The Secret of Freedom is Courage [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:19
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 encouragin…
A Debate for the Ages [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:52
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 op…
Rule of Law - Constitution [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:29
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 con…
First Principles [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:33
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…