Coming up this week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, a delightful conversation between Clay Jenkinson and David McCandry.

They talk about history, mammoths, and all number of things.

The New York Times recently had an article about a mammoth excavation in Alaska, and they were able to examine the tusks to determine the age of the creature.

It's wanderings on the Alaskan subcontinent when it died, what it ate, breathtaking.

And the question is, would Thomas Jefferson be interested? The answer, of course.

So the question was, does this connect to Jefferson, and obviously it does.

Jefferson would, of course, want a live mammoth at Monticello if he could get one.

He was just on the other side of the understanding of the dinosaur.

We also talked about history and how it affected decisions made by the founders.

Please join us for all that and more on this week's Thomas Jefferson Hour.

Good day, citizens, and welcome to What Would Jefferson Do?

Our weekly opportunity to discuss current American events with President Thomas Jefferson and good day to you, Mr. Jefferson.

Good day to you, citizen.

Sir, there is a push in Congress to pass legislation ensuring all citizens have a fair and equal opportunity to vote.

My question for you, sir, is how important is it that citizens do have a fair and equal opportunity to vote?

Can the democracy survive without it?

No, of course not. Ideally, every person would be part of the legislature, real democracy, in which everyone weighs in, on every public issue, all of the time.

But the country is too big for that.

So we have a representative system instead. So instead of appearing myself in a local council or congress, I send someone I elect to be my agent.

And this is the genius of the American system.

That representative or senator or governor represents the body of citizens and the citizens inform that person of what they intend, what their will is.

And so you don't know what the people think unless they all participate by voting.

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