Civic Virtue and Citizenship

We the People

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Christopher Beem, author of The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy; Richard Haass, author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens; and Lorraine Pangle, author of Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy, discuss the concepts of civic virtue and citizenship in democratic societies. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was originally streamed live on March 30, 2023, as part of our America’s Town Hall series. This program was made possible through the generous support of Citizen Travelers, the nonpartisan civic engagement initiative of Travelers. Resources: Richard Haass, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens Christopher Beem, The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy Lorraine Pangle, Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy Lorraine and Thomas Pangle, The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution
0:07.2	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.1	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit
0:14.9	chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution
0:19.1	among the American people.
0:20.9	This week we're sharing an episode from our Companion Podcast live at the National
0:24.4	Constitution Center. In this episode we discussed the role of civic virtue and
0:28.9	citizenship with Richard Haas, Christopher Beam, and Lorraine Pangel.
0:34.0	It was a great conversation and it was streamed live on March 30th, 2023.
0:39.0	Enjoy the show. Thank you. Hello friends, welcome to the National Constitution Center and to today's convening
0:49.6	of America's Town Hall.
0:51.3	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of this wonderful institution.
0:55.3	Let's begin, as always, by inspiring ourselves for the conversation ahead and let's recite together
1:01.9	the National Constitution Center's mission statement
1:04.0	here we go. The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by
1:08.6	Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the US Constitution
1:12.6	among the American people on a nonpartisan basis.
1:16.4	It's now a great honor to introduce our panel,
1:19.6	a dream team of writers about the importance of civic education.
1:24.0	Christopher Beam is managing director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State,
1:29.0	where he's also an associate research professor and affiliate faculty with the rock ethics institute.
1:34.1	He's the author of several books the most recent of which is the seven Democratic virtues,
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