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Can’t say that I blame them.

“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”

See a review on this book here by Heather Wilhelm on RealClearPolitics

“Popular Mechanics compiled these links to make it easier to compare leading presidential candidates on several issues of interest to our readers, primarily in areas of science and technology. We did not analyze any of the proposals, and we do not necessarily endorse them.”

Cited in this article is a webpage that will track delegate counts for both parties, which should be very useful to political junkies in the coming months.

See Also from Jim Geraghty at National Review: One Guy Asked a Question At Both Parties’ YouTube Debates? More YouTube Questions From Liberals Exposed.

I’ve been listening to the Federalist Papers recently, and what Fred Thompson has to say here is almost Hamiltonian in its rhetoric and succinctness. Please, read the whole thing.

“IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America…” When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the [...]

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such [...]

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.