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A Citizen's Syllabus

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October 27, 2019

#64: The best men, making the best deals

October 27, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#64: The best men, making the best deals

[T]he Constitution has taken the utmost care that they shall be men of talents and integrity

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October 26, 2019

#65-66: Impeachment power in the Senate

October 26, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#65-66: Impeachment power in the Senate

Where is the measure or criterion to which we can appeal, for determining what will give the Senate too much, too little, or barely the proper degree of influence?

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October 24, 2019

#67: The president

October 24, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#67: The president

The presidency didn’t even exist yet, but opponents already described him as a wasteful, lazy, murderous pervert.

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October 23, 2019

#68: Choosing the president

October 23, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#68: Choosing the president

[T]he office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications

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October 22, 2019

#69-70: Presidential powers

October 22, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#69-70: Presidential powers

The man who holds the office doesn’t recognize Constitutional limitations at all.

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October 20, 2019

#71-72: The president's term in office  

October 20, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#71-72: The president's term in office  

Hamilton admits he’s not sure, and has no way of being sure, that four years is the right number of years. He is confident, though, that the president should be allowed to run for re-election without limitation.

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October 13, 2019

#78-79: Federal Courts

October 13, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#78-79: Federal Courts

"Of the three powers, the judiciary is next to nothing."

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October 08, 2019

#83: Trial by Jury

October 08, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#83: Trial by Jury

Hamilton described the opponents’ case as “subtleties almost too contemptible for refutation,” meaning they were too stupid to argue with.

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October 07, 2019

#84: No rights? No problem.

October 07, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#84:  No rights? No problem.

He aims to exhaust readers’ attention span by focusing on the rights that ARE in the Constitution, so they will lose interest and forget to notice that the Constitution fails to mention freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and several more.

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October 06, 2019

#85: Closing thoughts

October 06, 2019/ Andy Zehner
#85: Closing thoughts

The final essay had no great effect on history. But it serves as a fitting close to the effort.

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A Citizen's Syllabus

“A truly robust civic education must encompass the full suite of aptitudes necessary for good citizenship. These include a grasp of the history and theory of democracy . . . and critical reasoning skills that help to distinguish true information from false. Other vital elements in good citizenship: a commitment to values such as tolerance and equality that provide standards against which to hold policymakers and policies to account, and a disposition directed toward cooperation and action.”

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels


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