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A Citizen's Syllabus

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July 05, 2020

What July 4th Should Not Be

July 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner
What July 4th Should Not Be

Military worship hurts American democracy.

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July 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
Independence Day, July 4, Fourth of July, holiday, American history, Jim Baird, James Baird, congress
June 27, 2020

Insanity!

June 27, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Insanity!

Insanity is doing different things over and over, expecting the same results.

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June 27, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
insanity, Einstein, Congress, seniority, young generation
June 07, 2020

Qualified Immunity & Police Brutality

June 07, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Qualified Immunity & Police Brutality

Qualified immunity doesn’t claim that brutal police are innocent; it admits they are guilty and insists that it doesn’t matter.

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June 07, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
police brutality, police abuse, violence, qualified immunity, sovereign immunity
May 31, 2020

Right is wrong; True is false; Kind is cruel

May 31, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Right is wrong; True is false; Kind is cruel

Should we keep doing what we did in the past? Or should we aim for the same goals?

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May 31, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
poverty, millennial, Millennial, Boomer, great depression, social justice, economic justice, retiree, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt
May 22, 2020

Interpreting the Constitution

May 22, 2020/ Andy Zehner
 Interpreting the Constitution

The Constitution means what it says, and people shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If the Constitution says you can’t, you can’t!

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May 22, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
Government
Constitution, Sotomayor, Scalia, living constitution, strict construction
May 17, 2020

Nothing lasts forever

May 17, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Nothing lasts forever

Time is hard on things. Nothing last forever.

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May 17, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
US Constitution, Constitution, elm tree, pear tree, future, duty
May 05, 2020

Expand the Congress!

May 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Expand the Congress!

The problem won’t go away when the pandemic dies down.

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May 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
April 26, 2020

Reasons to support Trump

April 26, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Reasons to support Trump

Trump supporters have their reasons.

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April 26, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
citizenship, duties of a citizen, Trump, Donald Trump, Bandy X, Bandy Lee
April 24, 2020

America is not in great shape

April 24, 2020/ Andy Zehner
America is not in great shape

The fact that the written-down law doesn’t say he can do what he’s doing doesn’t constrain him.

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April 18, 2020

The president can do what he wants

April 18, 2020/ Andy Zehner
The president can do what he wants

Presidents can do what the Constitution explicitly authorizes them to. But they can also do whatever they can get away with.

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“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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