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Essay / Summary of the Liberty Amendments by Mark R. Levin
Throughout the second chapter, Levin states that there is very little turnover in Congress and each time election time comes into play, most of the same people are elected to office (Levin 19-32). He believes that while term limits are not enough to balance the power of governing systems, it is a step in the right direction and is necessary and an essential building block (Levin 22). In his next chapter, Levin proposes an amendment to restore the Senate (Levin 33). This amendment would repeal the Seventeenth Amendment and ensure that all senators are chosen by their state legislatures, as prescribed in Article I (Levin 33). Before the Seventeenth Amendment, the Senate was chosen by each state's legislators (Levin 34). Throughout the chapter he goes on to explain how our country's founders intended the Senate to be chosen and how we have moved away from that. It discusses the opinions of several different people on how it should be run and also how it should be run. He states that John Dickinson proposed the idea that the Senate should be chosen by state legislatures (Levin