Posted on 09/22/2009 5:21:17 AM PDT by no-llmd
Sometimes, We the People discover that we have made a serious mistake, and we don't want to wait for the next election to correct it. In some states, voters can correct their mistakes with a recall election, such as the 2003 recall of California Governor Gray Davis.
The recall, however, is not available on the federal level. Federal officials are removed from office by either expulsion or impeachment. Congress uses expulsion. So, removal of bad actors in congress is a matter of elected officials ousting other elected officials; the electorate has no say in the matter. But is congress policing itself?
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The 1910s, what an awful decade. WWI and the 16th - 19th Amendments .
I wonder if anyone out there knows the longest serving Senator prior to the 17th Amendment. I do not, but believe the “Senate Career” was just not a problem until it was passed.
"A well-armed populace being necessary to the preservation and security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear all arms shall not be infringed, and any person, legislature, or officer of the federal government attempting to impose restrictions on such shall be guilty of treason"
I am a strong supporter of repealing the 17th amendment...this amendment is responsible for the precarious predicament we find this country in right now...but when you attempt to discuss it, most people will throw the “ But we live in a democracy, and in a democracy we elect, not appoint”. I then have to go into an explaination of how we are not a democracy, how appointment by the states was designed to keep all elections and power local, but by the time i get to that, they have usually fallen asleep, or went off to talk to someone else. Really, this crap should have been taught in high school civics classes.... the ignorant have truly taken over this country
They would have if they had known about Liberals.
We should clip the wings of congress by clarifying the commerce clause, and reasserting the 9th and 10th amendments. Then congressional power grabs, and consequntly out of control congressmen wouldn’t be such a problem. It would also get us out from under the tyranny of Federally mandated socialism.
Funny thing, this was taught to me in JR HIGH. Of course that was over 50 years ago.
If the legislatures of two-thirds of the states passed Resolutions of No Confidence, a new election would be called within sixty days. This would be a special election to replace all members of the House and Senate, and to choose a new Electoral College to elect a new President and Vice-President.
Once the new government was in place, all federal judges and civil service bureaucrats would be fired, and a whole new government and judiciary hired.
At the time it struck me as an intruiging idea.
Wilson was a vile president.
Also the General Welfare Clause and Interstate Commerce Clause could use a little tighter wording so that even judges and politicians can understand them...
FDR's supreme court tossed out 150 years of clear thinking.
A piece of paper is no guarantor of our liberties and rights. The problem is that we the people have relinquished so much to unelected judges for so long.
Well stated.
The Constitution exists to inform people when the government behaves illegitimately. The question is what people will do about it.
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