#1424 The Bill of Rights

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, we present an edited audio version of a Zoom town hall meeting recorded on December 15, 2020, the 229th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Humanities scholar and author Clay S. Jenkinson provides context and answers questions from the attendees.

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0:00.0	Good day citizens and welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Hour.
0:06.0	This week a special Zoom Town Hall recorded on December 15th, marking the anniversary of
0:13.6	the Bill of Rights.
0:15.0	The Thomas Jefferson Hour was created by Clay Jenkinson, the award-winning Humanity
0:19.9	Scholar and author.
0:20.9	I'm your host, David Swenson, and we are joined this week by Beth Kailer, acting as
0:26.0	moderator for the discussion.
0:28.6	Let me start by saying this first welcome.
0:31.4	Today is the anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
0:34.6	The Bill of Rights were added to the Constitution.
0:38.8	Jefferson played a role.
0:40.4	When Jefferson got copies of the Constitution in Paris in the later autumn of 1787, he
0:46.0	read the document with great interest.
0:48.8	He said that the people who had done it were 55 Demi Gods and that undoubtedly they had
0:54.0	produced something of extraordinary importance.
0:57.1	When he saw that there was no Bill of Rights, Jefferson was really not only disappointed
1:01.4	but upset.
1:02.8	He wrote a famous letter to his closest friend in protege, James Madison, in which he
1:07.0	said, whatever people on earth has a right to expect against its government is a Bill
1:11.6	of Rights.
1:12.6	This can never be left in France.
1:14.6	He pushed hard for Madison to either have another convention or to add a Bill of
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