Free Community Seminar Series The Foundations
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Date & Time
Mon, Jun 01 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Free Community Seminar Series – The Foundations of Our Republic, Take II
Monday, June 1, 2020
What are the fundamental principles of our Republic? Are these principles based on a view of objective reality/nature, or simply the “consent of the governed”? Depending on how one addresses the previous question: Are these principles changeable, and if so on what grounds? How should one read the founding documents? What authority does the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches have? What are rights? Are they based on nature or consent? Are they inalienable?
The June 1 reading is –
the Federalist Papers 78 and 85
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Schedule:
5:30 – 6:30PM PDT
Readings:
Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, selected Federalist Papers, selected Anti-Federalist Papers, the U.S. Constitution, selections from Democracy in American, Dred Scott Decision and Dissenting View (edited), selected Lincoln speeches, Lincoln Douglass Debates (edited), Plessy v. Ferguson and Dissenting View (edited), Brown v. Board of Education, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Proposed Equal Rights Amendment, UN Declaration of Human Rights
Meeting ID: 856 8640 5480
Password: 531927