#1435 Rebellion Revisited

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week Clay responds to listener mail, including many comments regarding a previous show about Shays' Rebellion, and what Jefferson's reaction would be to the insurrection that occurred on January 6, 2021.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listers. And as always, thank you so much for listening.
0:07.6	Yes, this program was in response to the, really the avalanche of mail that we received after
0:12.8	our program on a little rebellion. Now and then Jefferson's response first to Shay's rebellion
0:19.2	in 1786, then the great French Revolution in 1789 and projecting forward to what he might have
0:27.1	wanted to say about the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
0:33.3	There was so much mail and it was all directed at that program, which was program number 1431
0:40.4	titled a little rebellion. It's probably still up at the website at JeffersonHour.com or on your
0:48.2	favorite podcast platform. If you go to JeffersonHour.com, you can look for it there and you can support
0:54.6	the show, which we so appreciate by clicking on the donate button. We need it and we so appreciate
1:01.2	it. And I really enjoyed this conversation this week, mostly because it was such great questions
1:08.2	from listeners. There's a bunch that we didn't get to. We could have spent another hour.
1:12.6	The thing about it is that Jefferson is unique among the founding fathers. So Shay's rebellion was
1:19.6	an agrarian rebellion in Western Massachusetts because of economic dislocations that came after
1:25.2	the Revolutionary War and the farmers of the West were not well enough represented in the state
1:30.0	legislature. It's Springfield and when they couldn't get any redress of their of their honest
1:34.8	and significant grievances, they up the ante and eventually shut down some farm auctions and
1:41.0	stop some foreclosures and tart and feathered a few people and so on. And this horrified the American
1:48.4	establishment that horrified Abigail and John Adams who thought that it was the coming of
1:54.0	pandemonium and the apocalypse and it horrified James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and George
2:00.4	Washington and the three of them sort of put together the constitutional convention of 1787,
2:05.6	which in large part was meant to create a strong enough central government to deal with
2:10.0	insurrections of that sort. And so of all the founding fathers, Jefferson is really the only one
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