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The Spirit of the Laws: The Purpose and Dignity of Law | Citizenship Course, Season 1
How Can Power Be Checked and Civil Liberty Protected?
Completed · 22 episodes
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1. Why Is Civic Consciousness So Important? 2. Paths and Predicaments of Civic Education: Why These Ten Books? 3. The U.S. Election and the Sources and Direction of Power in Public Life 1. Did the Founder of Modern Political Science Prefer Monarchy to Republic? 2. Monarchy, Dictatorship, and Republic: Their Origins and Defining Features Bonus | Why Is U.S. Election Day a Tuesday? Bonus | How Might Trump Address the Russia–Ukraine War, and What Can Democrats Learn from Defeat? 3. Do Voters Know More Than Monarchs About Who Has Political Ability? 4. How Did Montesquieu Escape the Prejudices of His Social Position? 5. Why Did Montesquieu Publish Anonymously? 6. Is Democracy Actually an Extreme Form of Government? 7. Does Government Exist So People Need Not Fear One Another? Bonus | Beneath South Korea's Coup Drama, Montesquieu's Ideas Still Protect Us Today 8. Is the Separation of Powers Mainly Intended to Protect Citizens' Political Liberty? | Chapter 11 9. Is the Jury the Real Judge? Checks and Oversight in the Separation of Powers 10. ‘The People Are Not Ready for Democracy’: Does Democracy Have a Threshold? 11. Why Do Democracies Permit Citizens to Satirize the Government? 12. From Spinoza to Montesquieu: How Reason Quietly Subverted an Age 13. How Should Rational Thinkers Live with a Mob? 14. How Did the War of the Spanish Succession Shape European Intellectual History? 15. After Rome Fell, Why Did Europeans Long for a ‘Universal Monarch’? 16. Beyond Evolutionary Theories of Government: Rediscovering Difference and Pluralism | Season Finale