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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here talking about the U.S. presidency today with Jeremy Bailey, who's a

professor of political science at the University of

Houston, and the author of the brand new book, The Idea of Presidential Representation,

an Intellectual and Political History. Professor Bailey, welcome to the show.

Hey, how's it going? I find this a very interesting topic, and I guess I want to start this way.

My understanding of the key turning point on the question of presidential representation

was that it came fairly early on with the way Andrew Jackson looked at the presidency,

because he looked at himself in a way that I think was different from how his predecessors

looked at themselves as presidents. In that, he thought of himself as being the representative

of the American people because, in effect, the whole country votes for the president, but the whole

country does not vote for individual senators and representatives. And at the time, this alarmed John C. Calhoun, who thought the problem with this is that there is no single

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