Constitution Cafe, Christopher Phillips
Constitution Cafe, Christopher Phillips
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Constitution Café
Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution

Author: Christopher Phillips

Narrator: Dominic Hoffman

Unabridged: 12 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2022


Synopsis

“A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan.”—Kirkus Reviews

Thomas Jefferson believed that every generation of Americans should rewrite our Constitution from scratch—to mirror the progress of the human mind and, most of all, to maintain the revolutionary spirit. He would be dismayed that it’s considered untouchable these days. Taking up Jefferson’s cause, Christopher Phillips leads a motley group of Americans across the fruited plain in an offbeat Constitutional Convention. His Constitution Café project is sparking a much-needed conversation about our founding document and forging common ground at a time when our country needs it most.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. It takes a hard look at the Constitution and breaks it down with real people. Phillips asks each group how they would rewrite it, as Jefferson advised we should do in the first place. What do female inmates think "a jury of their peers" looks like? Wh......more

Goodreads review by J.I.

This book wants to be a Socratic attempt to better understand and reform the constitution, but it is terrible. The conversations have all been extensively rewritten by Phillips, so any group consensus is destroyed with his really hackneyed dialog (it's painful) that is always too abrupt in coming to......more

Goodreads review by Lonni

A disappointment truthfully!......more


Quotes

With infinite curiosity and an intellectual integrity . . . Phillips says about the bible of American tradition the unthinkable, the glorious, and the liberating: let it rip.—Thaddeus Russell, author of A Renegade History of the United States

In an era of hyper-partisanship, it’s refreshing to read instances of Americans from all political persuasions holding rational, respectful, and thought-provoking conversations with one another.—Publishers Weekly