Good Day citizens and welcome to what would Jefferson do?

Our weekly opportunity to discuss current American events

with President Thomas Jefferson, who is seated across from me now

Good Day to you, Mr Jefferson. good day to you mr.

Jefferson good day to you citizen mr.

Jefferson that I had occasion to talk about our constitutional convention recently and

I believe it was mr Franklin who was asked by a woman at the end of the

convention what the convention had left the country with and he said a

republic if you can keep it if you can keep it as a woman

they had had a gag order they had to operate in complete secrecy they were

forbidden to talk about it outside of the independent, what's now known as

Independence Hall. And so people were very curious and would often linger about

the square hoping that they might ascertain something about what the Constitution was going to be.

And then finally when it was over, the elderly Franklin came out.

He was carried back and forth in a sedan chair.

He was, I think, a world celebrity who also spoke a few times and very

meaningfully to the Constitutional Convention and when they came out a woman accosted him and said,

Dr Franklin, what have you produced and he said a republic if you can keep it

and you said something similar about a nation being ignorant and free

I did I this was to my beloved mentor George with I I believe that we can only be a republic

If we have a well-informed well-educated

Citizensry and so I said if you expect to be a nation ignorant and free, you expect

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