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Jeff welcomes Dr. Cara Rogers, Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University and published scholar of Thomas Jefferson, to talk about Jefferson’s important (but understudied) Letters to Roger Weightman and Henry Lee. Their conversation will examine the surprising legacy of the Declaration of Independence in the days of the Early Republic, Jefferson’s hopes for his country and what we would become as a nation – hope that is needed more than ever today.
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Dr. Rogers seems to attribute the idea of “The divine right of kings” to the Catholic Church, when in fact it was a formulation by Protestant rulers to justify their independence from the Catholic Church and Christendom.