Prof. Greg Jackson

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410 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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He says in the Federalist Papers that the Senate, he's explaining, right?
Why did they do the things that they did?
And he's explaining the check and balance between the two houses of Congress.
So Congress, our legislature, has two houses.
And fair enough, people sometimes ask, well, why?
Why bother?
And he's explaining that it's a check against corruption.
And one of the ways to ensure that check really holds is to try and make these two bodies that are clearly two halves of one thing, nonetheless, as different as possible.
So the House will elect Congresspersons
every other year, right?
And that's meant to intentionally make sure that representatives are dancing to whatever tune the people call.
You wanna hold onto your seat, you will do whatever is popular, period.
But he says the exact opposite for the senators.
And he even says that it is their duty to protect the people against their own delusions on occasion.
So here is a document.
Here's a government that's about government by the people.
And yet here he's introducing even a check against the people on a short-term basis.
I'm sorry.
I got excited and kept talking.
You're...
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