“I am a loyal, proud, cheerleading sort of North Dakotan.”
A listener in Texas admonishes Clay for offering to give up a North Dakota senate seat, and we take questions about the Fourteenth Amendment. Our constitutional discussions continue by reading additional correspondence from listeners.
This episode features letters from Jon Gammon, Louie Partida, Sam Darby, and Steven Jager.
Further Reading
A Jeffersonian Among the Seed Chippers
The Jefferson Watch
Read this week's Jefferson Watch essay, “A Jeffersonian Among the Seed Chippers.”
What Would Jefferson Do?
“I was saddened to believe that they had not put in a provision prohibiting a perpetual national debt.”
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David Swenson speaks with President Jefferson about Plato’s Republic and American democracy.
"I am a loyal, proud, cheerleading sort of North Dakotan."
— Clay S. Jenkinson
A listener in Texas admonishes Clay for offering to give up a North Dakota senate seat, and we take questions about the Fourteenth Amendment. Our constitutional discussions continue by reading additional correspondence from listeners.
"Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse or rest on inference."
— Thomas Jefferson, 1787
President Jefferson answers a number of listener questions about the United States Constitution. We discuss the meaning of Article V, how much of the document is open to interpretation, and the idea of amending the Constitution every generation.
We answer listener questions this week, and the most mail we received was about Robert Kagan's new book, The Jungle Grows Back, which Tom Friedman of The New York Times called "An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world."