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Everett Upshaw, J.D., Ph.D.

My life, education, and career have been guided by subjective empiricism: The conviction that conscience, reason, and evidence allow us to live better lives and build better societies.

Growth and learning are difficult and uneven.  Technological progress presents many dangers.  And all of us are imperfect, sometimes unfriendly, cohabitants of this world.  But I was raised to believe in the dream and possibility of human progress for all, based on faith and reason.  For my family, that meant the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Common Law, and the Industrial Revolution.  But there are as many paths as there are people.  What matters most are our universal experiences, and the direction we choose to walk in.

Like our ancestors before us, to pay all that they have given us forward, we must be inspired, not discouraged, by the challenges that face modern democracy now.

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LIBERTY & JUSTICE

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most-recognizable symbols of the best aspirations of the United States and all constitutional democracies.  At the same time, while sound economic thought has many benefits, the closely-intertwined principles of liberty and nurturing humanity are its two true moral compasses.

Minerva, depicted here standing in the front line, is an ancient symbol of justice, law, wisdom, and victory.  Justice should be impartial, but not symbolically blind, because wisdom requires perception.  America was founded on, and at its best embodies, the foundational principles of law.  Equality before and justice under the law, rather than personal connections and privilege, are the measure of worthy republics.