Checks and Balances in the U.S. Constitution

Episode 9: Checks and Balances

We often think of the three branches of government as the checks and balances we have in the United States, but there are more checks and balances intrinsic in the U.S. Constitution.

This episode explores 3 additional important ones that we need to be protecting. All the checks and balances are under attack, but especially these three that people don’t talk about. Maintaining all the checks and balances the Founders put in place will protect our freedoms and increase the likelihood that our nation may endure.

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Abortion; Pro Life vs Pro Choice

Episode 8: Abortion

This episode addresses the right to life vs pro choice and what is happening in the world with abortion. How does the inalienable right to life relate to a woman’s right to choose? Are we asking the right questions when it comes to pro choice? What price are we paying for abortion?

For world abortion stats go there is a detailed report at Guttmacher.org.

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Front Porch Sense Episode 7: The Proper Role of Government

Episode 7: The Proper Role of Government

Today people are trained to turn to government to find solutions for nearly every challenge. Government is involved in everything from health care to education to redistribution of wealth.

How do we know what situations are appropriate for government intervention and which are not? In this video Marnie discusses the proper role of government.

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The example stories in this video are adapted from Ezra Taft Benson’s “The Proper Role of Government.”

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Pursuit of Happiness, Big Dreams and Entitlement

Episode 6: Big Dreams, The Pursuit of Happiness and Entitlement

What do big dreams and the pursuit of happiness have to do with entitlement? Very little! In this episode, Marnie explores why taking away challenges and giving people things for free diminishes their happiness and keeps them from becoming the people capable of achieving great things.

Let’s stop robbing people of their big dreams and the ability to pursue their own brand of happiness!

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5 Top Concerns for America

Episode 5: 5 Concerns for America

Marnie’s dad, Jack Morton, joins her on her front porch to talk about what’s happening in the world. Jack, an octogenarian, shares the 5 concerns for America that he has. These are five things that he’s seen drastically deteriorate in the last fifty years (since Marnie was born).

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Episode 4: Immigration and Globalism

What do open borders really mean for our country and the world? Marnie explores the root agenda of the left in eliminating national borders and national sovereignty in this episode of Front Porch Sense. For more common sense conservative insights, please subscribe.

The article mentioned in this episode is What Progressives Want.

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The key to preserving freedom in America is to preserve family values.

Episode 3: The Key to Freedom is the Family

The destruction of the family is closely tied to the loss of freedom in our country. This episode of Front Porch Sense explains why families are so important, why they are under attack, and why preservation of the family is the solution to restoring liberty in America. From Marnie Pehrson Kuhns, best-selling author of Restoring Liberty: Personal Responsibility and Freedom in America.

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racism in America and the proper role of government

Episode 2: Racism and the Proper Role of Government

In this episode of Front Porch Sense, Marnie Pehrson Kuhns, author of Restoring Liberty: Personal Responsibility and Freedom in America, looks at hot-topic issues (like racism) and how we’re discussing them in America. Are we taking into account all the perspectives, geographic areas, cultural differences? The discord we’re experiencing is a clue to a much deeper problem that strikes at the core of freedom in America.discusses racism. Let’s take a look at lawmaking, centralization, and decentralization in U.S. government.

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Episode 1: Progressive Agenda of the Democratic Party

In this first episode of Front Porch Sense, Marnie Pehrson Kuhns and her father, Jack Morton, discuss the shifts in the political climate – the changes that are happening in both the democratic and republican parties over recent decades, why the left has become more bold in their progressive (aka socialist) agenda, and what we can do about it.

This is the first episode of Front Porch Sense – conservative common sense commentary from best-selling author, Marnie Pehrson Kuhns. Please subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.

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