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Part 4 of 5, this one focused on as-applied versus facial challenge of the penal code in California. The Ninth Circuit defends open carry in California, Part 4 of 5 (Part 4 was 17 April 2026, Part 2 was 19 Feb 2026 and Part 1 was 15 Jan 2026) of our study of open carry in America's Constitutional tradition by spending more time today with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) from the top of page 37 (Roman Numeral II) through to the top of page 49 at VII. The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, with a Republican US Senate).

We will pick up at page 49 and Roman Numeral VII.

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/01/02/24-565.pdf

Here's a link to the article I wrote 9 April 2020 for San Diego County Gun Owners, published on Gun Owner's Radio, that I entitled : "Two Types of Self-Defense" here.

https://gunownersradio.com/two-types-of-self-defense/

This episode and this series is dedicated to the memory of my closest first cousin, Little Dan Mountain Jr, closest in age by just a couple of weeks, who died earlier this year in January.

I picked a topic that would bring a smile to his face and that would honor the bright spots in our childhood together in Colorado.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment-in-California podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, discusses the book As A Man Thinketh by Allen with Bob Jensen in September 1977 for the benefit of Mr. Steak's nationwide staff in 285 restaurants. Grandpa interjects his thoughts along with Scripture. This seems to have been a monthly series called "Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge," each month with a new theme.

Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for the gift to me of these rare tapes of the Mr. Steak franchisor founder and motivational speaker, James A. Mather.

Grandpa Mather was raised by a single mother in the Great Depression in El Dorado, Kansas. He went on to serve as a Navy F2F Hellcat fighter pilot during World War 2. He started the company in 1962. He and his first wife Dottie raised 3 kids in Colorado. He died last year in the presence of his second wife Linda peacefully in Camarillo, California at the ripe age of 102 years young. Funeral services were held at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park and performed by Pastor Rob McCoy, whom Jim mentored in the Lord.

Enjoy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-free-enterprise-system podcast. Therefore, welcome back Grandpa Jim James A. Mather.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D

Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, was interviewed by Cheyenne Wyoming's Tom Bauman on KRAE Radio Tuesday 23 March 1982.

Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for the gift to me of these rare tapes of the Mr. Steak franchisor founder and motivational speaker, James A. Mather.

I believe this may have been recorded in the Cheyenne, Wyoming Mr. Steak restaurant during business hours.

Grandpa Mather was raised by a single mother in the Great Depression in El Dorado, Kansas. He went on to serve as a Navy F2F Hellcat fighter pilot during World War 2. He started the company in 1962. He and his first wife Dottie raised 3 kids in Colorado. He died last year in the presence of his second wife Linda peacefully in Camarillo, California at the ripe age of 102 years young. Funeral services were held at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park and performed by Pastor Rob McCoy, whom Jim mentored in the Lord.

Enjoy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-free-enterprise-system podcast. Therefore, welcome back Grandpa Jim James A. Mather.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D

Part 2: Chapter 2 on The Dialectical Approach: Methodology and Ethics.

We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake on the corner of Bowles and Wadsworth, down the street from Clement Park and Columbine Library.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of "Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (NY: Quill Press, 1985). By Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. We pick up on p. 18 from last time which was episode 1 in the series recorded on Sunday 31 May 2026.

We'd like to thank Quill Press for making this material available. We'd of course like to thank Thomas Sowell for writing it.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correckly-understanding-Marxism-philosophy-and-economics podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Part 2: Hamilton v. Jefferson .

We're talking about the motivation of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution. It's a theory of the mentor of my Con Law mentor, himself an historian at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s who taught my Con Law mentor Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann, Ph.D., LLB. Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat .

This is part 2 of multiple. We cover the second section starting on page 10 where we left off on 6 July 2026 and continuing through to the first part of section three to page 23 at the bottom.

This episode broaches the topic of what explained and motivated the Founders of America and Framers of the Constitution.

"It is my argument that the lust for the psychic reward of fame, honor, glory, after 1776 becomes a key ingredient in the behavior of Washington and his greatest contemporaries." So ends Adair's first section in this speech which we cover today.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of the this selection, "Fame and the Founding Fathers," the speech Dr. Adair gave in Kansas City to the Organization of American Historians in the mid-1960s. It's chapter 1 in a volume by the same title and made available by Liberty Fund, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana.

We'd like to thank Douglass Adair for writing it and presenting it, and we'd like to thank Liberty Fund for making it available. Go out and get your physical copy today and follow along.

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The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-major-influences-on-American-politics podcast.

Therefore, welcome, through his writing, Dr. Douglas Adair, Ph.D., of the history department at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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