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60 Second Civics: The Fairfax Resolves Explained
No taxation without representation. Sound familiar? Hear about George Mason's Fairfax Resolves. [1 min. 7 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: The Pugnacious Fairfax Resolves
The hard-hitting final paragraph of the Fairfax Resolves. [1 min. 16 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
It's the most influential constitutional document you've never heard of: the Virginia Declaration of Rights. [58 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Influence of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights had a strong influence at home and abroad. Learn all about it on this podcast. [1:01]
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60 Second Civics: Equally Free and Independent
The influences on the Virginia Declaration of Rights and its opening paragraph are addressed in this podcast.
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60 Second Civics: Principles in the Virginia Declaration of Rights
Government officials serve the people, not the other way around - George Mason thought this important enough to commit to the Virginia Declaration of Rights. [59 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Government Is for the Common Benefit of the People
There were bold assertions in the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Check out what expectations the people had of the government and citizens. [1 min.]
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60 Second Civics: Universal Rights in the Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights expresses particular concern about the rights of those accused of criminal offenses. [1 min. 5 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Frequent Recurrence to Fundamental Principles
Discussion of the paragraph of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that has arguably been the most influential. [1 min. 2 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Feudalism Part 3
Examine the final two of four essential ideas of feudalism. [1 min. 15 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: George Mason and Slavery
George Mason was a slaveholder, but he came to believe that slavery was wrong. [1 min. 4 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Washington and Jefferson on Slavery
Washington and Jefferson were opposed to slavery, but both were slaveholders. We examine their positions on slavery in this episode. [1 min. 2 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: James Madison on Slavery
James Madison was consistently opposed to slavery throughout his life. [55 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Slavery and the Potential of American Decline
George Mason was strongly opposed to slavery and expressed his opposition throughout his life. He felt slavery would destroy the new nation. [1 min. 28 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: That Infernal Traffic
George Mason called slavery "that infernal traffic" and thought it posed a danger to the morals of the people who held slaves. [1 min. 22 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: That Slow Poison
Unlike George Washington, George Mason never freed his slaves. He condemned slavery, but was unable to fully realize his own principles. [1 min. 11 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Northerners Opposed to Slavery
Free blacks were kidnapped from New York streets and sold into slavery. Some colonists were outraged. [1 min. 7 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: The New York Manumission Society
Vigorous and vocal opposition to slavery emerged from the New York Manumission Society, founded by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and others. [1 min. 8 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Slavery and the Revolutionaries
Historian Bernard Bailyn argued that abolitionism didn't truly exist in the era of the American Revolution. [54 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Growing Opposition to Slavery
Should we expect the Founders to have transcended the limitations of their own age in their actions against and attitudes toward slavery? [1 min. 9 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Antislavery Public Opinion and George Mason
America's ideals of liberty couldn't justify the institution of slavery: Founders like George Mason knew it. [59 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: George Mason Refuses to Sign the Constitution
Learn why George Mason refused to sign the Constitution. [1 min. 7 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: Mason Objects to the Constitution
George Mason objected that the Constitution contained no Bill of Rights. So he wrote about it. [1 min. 10 secs.]
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60 Second Civics: "There Is No Declaration of Rights"
"There is no Declaration of Rights," declared George Mason. And he refused to sign the Constitution. [1 min. 9 secs.]