#1328 Constitutional Correspondence

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

"What would fix this country? Almost the number one thing would be: take money out of politics."

— Clay S. Jenkinson

We continue our current theme of constitutional discussions by reading and considering listener mail, including a number of specific suggestions for constitutional amendments. We also share a report from a listener who visited Monticello when Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were there.

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0:00.0	Good date Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners.
0:03.3	We're so glad you've joined us.
0:05.2	Thank you for listening.
0:07.2	We got some great mail about constitutional change.
0:09.8	And we didn't get through it all.
0:11.1	But I would urge everyone. A, to read the Constitution and B, to go to the Jefferson Watch
0:16.5	where I proposed some modest amendments to the Constitution and then propose your own.
0:21.1	If you could go into the Constitution and rewrite it, what would you do?
0:24.0	What would fix this country? Do we want to be a republic?
0:27.0	Maybe we don't even really want to be a republic anymore, David.
0:29.0	You know, I've been writing a new introduction to my book,
0:32.0	becoming Jefferson's people, and I'm writing what a republic looks like.
0:36.0	Well a republic is a government by the people.
0:40.0	They take a very active role they're engaged.
0:42.1	It's not just voting and paying taxes
0:43.7	they they go to public meetings and state their mind they study the evidence they
0:48.2	they know what they follow legislation as it goes they believe that we need to be as independent as we can possibly be.
0:55.4	They're fretful about a welfare state or about too many government programs.
1:00.5	They're fiscal conservatives that want a balanced budget.
1:04.8	Maybe we don't want to be a republic, maybe we just talk about it.
1:08.0	I'm serious.
1:09.0	It makes me think of a Joni Mitchell song.
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