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 for me now and good day to you Mr Jefferson

good day to you citizen mr. Jefferson you often say that we should tear up the

Constitution every generation and rewrite it and yet there may be

some parts of the Constitution that you would like to see preserved.

Of course, we should keep the Bill of Rights. We may wish to clarify it. The

Ninth Amendment suggests we may want to add others to the Bill of Rights protections for all of

our citizens against the powers of government, against self-incrimination, etc.

So I would certainly believe that there are parts that should be simply brought back into the next Constitution with perhaps

some additions and clarifications and I'm quite comfortable with the tripartite

system of government that's outlined in articles 1, 2, and

many other of the mechanisms of the original Constitution.

My point is that as time moves on and people see the world in a new way

when there are new technologies or the demographics of the country have changed

or public attitudes have changed,

we ought to keep pace with that by rewriting the Constitution

so that it is always up to date with the fundamental will of the people.

Speaking of things that are up to date, sir, right now the country is going through an impeachment

process. How do you feel about what the Constitution says about that?

Well, I was concerned about it in my own time.

I should quickly point out that I was not one of the people who wrote the Constitution in the summer of 1787.

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