#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor
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The Edits and the Cutting Room Floor of the Founding Era in American History
Bob Reslin is the author of a book on constitutional revision every five times you have it in your book. He says that Thomas Jefferson should never lose his place because he is the poet of the framing. We'll take a short break to talk with Bob about a letter that Jefferson wrote to John Adams. And then we will get into the biggest of these edits, the famous anti-slavery manifesto in the first draft of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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