Our Public Forum on Texas Education Needs Overhaul
The speaker urges stronger focus on schooling over prisons, citing 42 percent of Texas children not enrolled, 56 day average attendance, and high illiteracy. They push compulsory schooling, note the University produces many lawyers and politicians, and call for major reforms despite praise for some graduates.
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Organized selfishness and the peril facing civilization today
A historic lament on human frailty and greed shaping civilization. The speaker argues organized selfishness pits classes against government, erodes virtue, and shifts power from citizens to factions, urging nobler deeds and citizenship first.
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Maintaining the Bill of Rights and Jeffersonian Localism
The piece argues for renewed dedication to preserving the Bill of Rights and local state autonomy. It contrasts Jeffersonian local self government with Hamiltonian centralized power, praising the ninth and tenth amendments and the ideals of liberty, due process, and representative government.
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