From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome

into another edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with

Adam Carrington from Hillsdale's Politics Department about why we nominate our presidential

candidates the way we do. Retired Major General Mel Speese on foreign policy, Chris

Hamilton from Hillsdale's chemistry department tells us about RNA.

And we hear excerpts from the 2012 commencement address from the late Sir Roger Scruton.

We're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington, Assistant Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College.

Find him online on Twitter at Carrington AM. Dr. Carrington,

thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me again. Talking about the presidential nominating

processes here on today's segment. Why do we nominate presidential candidates in the

manner that we do? And I guess I mean that largely in, who sets the rules?

Constitutionally, the parties set this out. Why do we do it the way we do it?

Really, it's a combination of the party deciding how it wants to nominate and also it can be

heavily influenced by state laws that are passed by the legislature on how primaries

are supposed to work, how the outcomes are supposed to be done in the particular elections.

But there's nothing in the Constitution.

The Constitution, as many people will point out, says nothing about parties.

Some of the founders even were very critical of the concept of parties.

So this is really something that grows up

within the constitutional system, but is not specifically condoned by it and has been very

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