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. President.

Good day to you citizen.

Mr. Jefferson our current president recently said that the most important decision a president can make if he's lucky enough is that of

selecting an appointment for the Supreme Court. How would you feel about that, sir?

Oh my, that would suggest to about that, sir? Oh my.

That would suggest to me that you have fallen desperately

away from any idea of a republic.

And let me remind you that our system is a tripartite system. We have an executive branch, we have a legislative

branch, and we have a judicial branch. The theory of all of this is that the will of the people

matters in a republic, that the people are

sovereign, and they have a right to enact their will in the public square.

Therefore the legislative branch is the most important one, because it's the one that distills the will of the people.

We have a house and a senate who go about their work in slightly different ways,

and it produces law, which is meant to represent the will of the people.

The executive suggests action to the legislature and manages our foreign relations, but that person is really meant

to administer the law once passed by the Congress.

And the third branch, the judiciary, is meant to be far the weakest.

They are meant to sit in isolation, to examine laws that have been passed or actions of the executive, and to give their opinion about

whether it is in resonance with the principles of the Constitution and the provisions of the

Bill of Rights, or whether it so deviates from our constitutional law that it is probably

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