You could not have the direct election of senators without creating this allpowerful, centralized national government. They wanted a federal republic, not an allpowerful, centralized government. And they even made this case to the states when it went to the states for the ratification of the constitution. They said, look, the senate is made up of individuals chosen by the state legislatures, so youre going to have a role in the federal law making process, among other things. So the federalists used the senate, among other things, and the nature of the senate to persuade the antifederalists to support the constitution. And if we had had direct election of senators in the original constitution, there the would not be an original constitution. The states would not have ratified it. Furthermore, who do the senators represent . Its the most bizarre body man has ever created. Theres two from every states, we get that, that was to balance the large states and the small states, but you have si
Host author mark with income and your most recent book, restoring the American Republic, you proposed amendment to the constitution, including term limits for members of congress, a repeal of the 17th amendment or the senate, establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices, limiting federal spending, limiting federal taxes, limiting the federal bureaucracy. Which of these and most important to you . Guest they are all of the same genre. Guest so theyre all quite important, and the goal or the purpose of the book is to notbot only talk about how to revive the constitution and restore the republic, but to inform people on what the republic is supposet to look like, how the s constitution is supposed tonsti function and to move some of the Decision Making away from thenta centralized Government Back to t the state legislatures acting collectively as the framers intended. Nte host you write in the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. 17th amendment t the public interest, but th
That reach of integrity is irresponsible and unacceptable to me. On this situation, it began weeks to months ago and i thought the problem was limited and isolated and i believe that. But i no longer believe that it is systemic. I was too trusting of some and i accepted it and i now know that it has been misleading in regard to patient wait times. I cannot explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facility. This is something that i have rarely encountered during my 30 years in uniform. And so i will not defend it because it is not worth defending. But i can take responsibility with responsibility for it. And i do. So given the fact i now know, i apologize with the Senior Leader of the department of Veterans Affairs and i extend my condolences to the veterans of this country and their families and loved ones who i have been honored to serve for 45 years now. I also offer an apology to members of congress and the Veterans Services organizations including
Have that faculty are prepared to train teachers to be effective under the common core standards . I have the belief that this is new for everyone. There are no senses of immediate expertise but there is an individual expertise. Once again a great opportunity to build the confidence. Very quickly if we could do this together. I have confidence that our institutions learn and learn quickly. , the faculty lets remember that the productive relationship between high quality researchers and design brings together evidence. All of us here fear that trend to change call the institution by institution is daunting. Why dont we look at, in court . Telling people in with the College Board does, sharing high quality courses that are designed and built upon and refined through educators working together. I want to separate these four second. I could not agree with you more that Brilliant Minds helped shape a common core. As opposed to the construction it was a combination of mathematicians and educ
I think theyre going to start to see a lot of pressure from congress to rein in their costs. Josh mitchell writes for the wall street journal, and thanks for spending the last half hour with us. Yes. And we appreciate all of your phone calls, comments on twitter, and the conversation continues online, and the question we have been asking is, how much debt is worth going into college . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] coming up, president obamas statement on nominating jacob lew, and then vicepresident biden on gun laws. Then, a new report on mortgage policy changes. Later, another chance to see the look at the rise of the Student Loan Debt. Friday, on washington journal, business roundtables john engler on the fiscal cliff and the updated battles in congress. Then, looking at the increasing number of women in congress with Stephanie Schriock, and after that, michael from the pew research center. Washington