Welcome to the podcast introduction for this week's Thomas Jefferson hour.

This week's show was devoted to, in most part, answering listener mail.

And we started with a question from an unidentified listener.

A quote was that if a law is unjust a man is not only right to disobey it,

he is obligated to do so. And you said no, that's not Jefferson.

That's not Jefferson.

Jefferson believed that we were so fortunate in having a self-correcting mechanism in our Constitution.

And so he believed that people should work within the system to change and that we should

all pre-agree to majority rule and that sour grapes is not a legitimate response

to government that doesn't behave the way you might wish it to.

On the other hand, Jefferson did believe in the right to revolution and the right to rebellion.

And so we wrestled that we sort of moved around a little bit in trying to talk that through.

But Jefferson basically believes that if there's a rule that we all agree to, a set of monopoly rules,

then we should play according to those rules and that you can't decide

when you approve of your system and when you disapprove of it, if the rules are being faithfully executed and there's no bribery or corruption,

then you must cheerfully acquiesce when majority rules in a way that is against your own predilections or your own

self-interest. We also spent some time talking about political correctness in the out-of-character

segment. I presented a couple of listener questions to you and

one we really kind of ran out of time. It was from Kirk Samuels, Chapel Hill, North

Carolina. It was about the the Hamilton musical musical at the end of his letter which we really

didn't get to he wondered about whether or not the dark side of Jefferson the

song titled the room where it Happens About the Unknown Goings On

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