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US Constitution has saved the country - and how it can again

submitted by curiousity

1 decade 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago

Eric Lane talks about The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved our Country - and Why it Can Again.

This is an inspiring look at the document that has made our country the longest surviving democracy in the history of civilization. But Lane warns us our system is at risk - Book Passage

(57 minutes)(Mar 8th, 2008)

01: Book Passage
Introduction
02: Eric Lane: What it
Means to Be American
03: Becoming Existential
04: Constitutional Process
05: Growth in Federal
Government
06: Lack of Civic Education
07: No Change Without
Consensus
08: Monarchical Prerogative
09: The Broken Branch
10: Need for Education
11: Q1: Iraq War Funding
12: Q2: Iroquois
Confederacy Influence
13: Q3: Supreme Court on
Monarchical Power
14: Q4: Creating Change
15: Q5: Divisions
16: Q6: FDR's Monarchical
Power
17: Q7: Signing
Statements
18: Q8: Gore's Respect
for Judiciary
19: Q9: Cheney's
Monarchical Prerogative
Comment
20: Q10: Line Item Veto

6 Comments

good presentation.

really like the tools in the fora.tv interface, too.

Moving this video to curiousity's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Corner to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter curiousity.

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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