{"article":{"id":249431,"heading":"Video: Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution","author":"Christopher Phillips","created":"2011-11-07 15:40:54","modified":"2011-11-07 15:40:54","last_modified":"Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:40:54","article":"

Video: Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution

Christopher Phillips, www.booktv.org, Nov 6, 2011, 1 hr 13 min

Christopher Phillips, using the example of the directive by Thomas Jefferson that the U.S. Constitution by revised on a frequent basis, travels across the country and speaks to a myriad group of Americans about re-framing the Constitution. The author's participants include soldiers and pacifists in Berkeley, California who want to make military service mandatory and grade school students in the Southwest who have devised a plan to end personal inheritance and create a national wealth distribution system. Christopher Phillips speaks at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

to watch the BookTV presentation aired November 6, 2011, click on

http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Watch\/12811\/quotConstitution<\/a>+Cafe+Jeffersons+Brew+for+a+True+Revolutionquot.aspx



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