I appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] i have books to go ahead and sign. Everyone can go home with an assigned book. I will sign books for everyone. You are watching booktv. Nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. The purpose of the book is to not only talk about how to revise the constitution and restore the public but to inform people what the republic is supposed to look like in the constitution is supposed to function. And to move the Decision Making away from the centralized Government Back to the state legislature, acting collectively as the framers intended. The right of the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. It serves not the public interest, but the governing masterminds and the disciples. Its early proponents advanced and not because they championed democracy where the individual. But because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the government. Thats right. The framers did not create a pure democracy. That would be absolute nonsense and craziness. If you look at the constitution, it is very complex what they created here. You have a Central Government with limited enumerated powers. Three branches, each which should be working with each other sometimes attacking each other. And of course you have the states as well were all of these powers are supposed to exist and the individual exist. So this idea of the direct elections is what the framers intended is not correct. They intended it for the house of representatives and they debated this at length. But the senate was supposed to look like, they went back and forth with different models. But madison and the others made quite clear that you cannot have this without creating an allpowerful centralized national government. They wanted a federal republic and they even made this case to the states when it went to the ratification of the new constitution. They said the senate is made up of individuals chosen by the state legislature. So you will have a role in the federal lawmaking process among other things. So the federalist used the senate among other things in the nature of the senate to persuade the antifederalist to support the constitution. If we had had the direct election of senators, there would not be in the original constitution and the states would not have ratified it. Furthermore, who exactly do the senators represent . It is the most bizarre body that man has ever created. There are two from every state. We get back. Bouncing the worksheets from the small states. But the direct election of senators, you have situations now where senators voted for obamacare and states had governors and the attorney general fought obamacare in court. In the state legislatures are trying to protect their citizens from obamacare when the senators voted for it. So its very bizarre. The senate today really is an odd construct. So the purpose of the senate was to empower the state legislature and the federal lawmaking process. Not to does have another ability to vote. For this month booktv bookclub, join other readers to discuss the liberty amendments by mark within. Restoring the american republic. Go to booktv. Org to enter the chat room. You can login as a guest to your facebook or twitter account. Post your thoughts on his book. Booktv continues with will swift. He recounts the relationship between Richard Nixon and his wife. The author utilized correspondence between the nixon family and interviewed friends and family members about his marriage a political career and political tenure. This is about half an hour. Thank you all for coming. And thank you so much to say in the and the foundation for inviting me. The book, pat and dick the nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage, it came out on tuesday and this is the first talk im giving. I want to say on a personal note that it is dedicated to my thre