The goal or the purpose of the books to not only talk about how to revive the constitution and restore the republic, but to inform people on what the republic is supposed to look like, how the constitution is supposed to function and to move some of the Decision Making away from the centralized Government Back to the state legislatures acting collectively as the framers intended. Host you write in the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. The 17th amendment serves not the public interest, but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advance, it is not because they championed democracy or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling Constitutional Republicanism. Guest right. The framers didnt create a pure democracy. That would be absolute nonsense and crazy. In fact, if you look at the constitution, its very complex, what they created here. Yo
Security and is 2013 release, liberty and ants. Host author mark he slip, in your most recent book, the liberty amendments, you proposo amendments to the constitution including term limits for members of congress, a repeal oi the 17th amendment for the senate establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices, lim limiting federal spending,co limiting federal taxing, limiting the federali bureaucracy. Which of these are most important to you . You . Guest they are all of the same genre. Guest so theyre all quite important. And the goal or purpose of the book is to not only talk about how to revive the constitution and restore the republic, but to inform people on what the republic is supposed to look like, how the constitution isosd supposed to function and to move some of the Decision Making away from the centralized governmentt back to the state legislatures acting collectively as the framers intended. Host you write in the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. Es n the 17th
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