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Stand Up Citizen

Stand Up Citizen

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.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Stand Up Citizen episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Stand Up Citizen for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Stand Up Citizen episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Stand Up Citizen - The Greatest Debate

The Greatest Debate

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11/25/19 • 25 min

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Stand Up Citizen - Agenda for the Political Season
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07/10/20 • 12 min

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Stand Up Citizen - Rule of Law - Constitution
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11/06/19 • 32 min

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 making the Constitution. An overview of their objectives in designing the document will I hope lead listeners to read the document and realize our good fortune.

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Stand Up Citizen - A Debate for the Ages

A Debate for the Ages

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11/25/19 • 25 min

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 for Americans to read. They are principled, thoughtful, and persuasive articles. What will those who wrote the Constitution do about this?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay band together and write responses to all of the opposition writing, These come down to us as the Federalist Papers. Their work is relevant to our day, quoted often by courts, academics, politicians.
This episode provides a glimpse into that greatest debate, what may be the high point of the entire period of our nation's founding.

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Stand Up Citizen - Republic At Risk

Republic At Risk

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08/20/20 • 20 min

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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Stand Up Citizen - The Case Against Citizens United
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01/16/20 • 17 min

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 corporate structure, the case against the Supreme Court's decision is convincing.

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Stand Up Citizen - On Civic Virtue

On Civic Virtue

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12/29/19 • 22 min

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

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Stand Up Citizen - The Secret of Freedom is Courage
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12/11/19 • 20 min

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 districts run entirely counter to the intent and design of Hamilton, Madison and the other members of our founding generation. We need to face this problem using their wisdom, consult their reasoning, and take a hard look at the risks if we don't take care of the threat of gerrymandering.

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Stand Up Citizen - First Principles

First Principles

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09/20/19 • 27 min

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 work. We also do some testing of those principles in our time and how we are or are not faithful to them. The consequences of we have gone astray may be grave, and threaten our great experiment in self government.

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Stand Up Citizen - Looking Back to Our Founders
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09/07/19 • 20 min

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 founders and compare our actions to how they expected citizens to act in our republic. In this way we can begin to see whether our current generation of citizens and public officials need a new set of principles and guidance, or is any shortcoming due to operator error on our part.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Stand Up Citizen have?

Stand Up Citizen currently has 14 episodes available.

What topics does Stand Up Citizen cover?

The podcast is about Civics, Constitution, History, Podcasts, America, Politics and Government.

What is the most popular episode on Stand Up Citizen?

The episode title 'The Case Against Citizens United' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Stand Up Citizen?

The average episode length on Stand Up Citizen is 22 minutes.

How often are episodes of Stand Up Citizen released?

Episodes of Stand Up Citizen are typically released every 19 days, 3 hours.

When was the first episode of Stand Up Citizen?

The first episode of Stand Up Citizen was released on Sep 7, 2019.

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