How Does Our System Stack Up?
How well does our system if government stack up against others?
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Civic Education
How Citizens Can Help Hold the Line
Here’s how you can help hold the line. More tomorrow.
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Deciding Where the Line Is
… has to come first if we are to defend it.
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Can Citizens Hold the Line?
… against power hungry politicians?
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Can the Courts Protect the Republic?
Can the courts protect the Republic all by themselves?
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In Need of Shoring Up
Chain reaction? Less democracy, less trust, more vulnerability?
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Your Right to Protest
Your right to protest did not come for free.
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Is Democracy Falling in Our Republic?
Does trust fall as democracy falls?
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Gaps in Public Service Delivery
Do poor services fuel distrust?
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Gaps in the Quality of Government?
Gaps between what should be and what is?
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Why do we trust local government the most and federal the least?
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How has political trust changed over time?
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Why is politicizing police a problem?
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How does impartiality build trust in political institutions?
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Why does political trust matter?
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Ask CFFAD: Why Use the Constitution to Protect Rights?
Our first ever question for Ask CFFAD is this: “Why Use the Constitution to Protect Rights?” If our rights weren’t protected we would live in a dramatically different society. Respecting each others’ rights may seem like common sense fairness, but the truth is people can’t always be trusted to share power, nor to give it
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How can we build social trust?
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Are people more trustworthy than we expect?
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Why does social trust matter?
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Why is vigilant mistrust useful?
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What’s wrong with clever rule-bending?
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Why do Constitutions need defending?
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Political trust is earned when the government delivers on our interests, and delivers fairly.
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Why did the framers favor federalism? What special power do the states have?
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Why is fair play important to our republic?
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