To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Geez — for the umpteenth time: only people have rights; State Governments have powers not specfically reserved to the Federal Government AND those powers are derived from the consent of the governed.
2 posted on
05/29/2012 7:43:40 PM PDT by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is necessary to return the power to the States and the People...
3 posted on
05/29/2012 7:45:24 PM PDT by
Rumplemeyer
(The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Personally, I think that it should be repealed. State governments have been run over by the Feds since the 17th was adopted.
5 posted on
05/29/2012 7:48:56 PM PDT by
Tau Food
(Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How long before the Dems try to do away with the much ignored 10th?
6 posted on
05/29/2012 8:01:42 PM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Not a bad idea, although repealing the 16th would be far more effective.
7 posted on
05/29/2012 8:07:58 PM PDT by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Please oh please oh please repeal the 17th
9 posted on
05/29/2012 8:09:41 PM PDT by
Crazieman
(Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Supporters say the amendment reduces corruption by reducing the influence of state legislators and gives more power to the public. The masses are asses, esp since universal suffrage. I'll take my chances with 30 or so corrupt pols compared to 10,000,000 low information voters.
10 posted on
05/29/2012 8:10:06 PM PDT by
bkopto
(Obama and Biden merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is terrific: The best argument is to list the average incomes of members of the US Senate (most are very wealthy).
Next list the average cost of running a statewide Senate campaign in a large state such as CA, TX, or FL (off the charts). People spend tens of millions of their own money in LOSING campaigns.
The 17th intentionally pushes the goal posts so far down the field that only the elite can play the game.
The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. The 17th subverts their clear intentions.
Repeal 17th!
12 posted on
05/29/2012 8:21:49 PM PDT by
man_in_tx
(Blowback: Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
14 posted on
05/29/2012 8:32:29 PM PDT by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Let's see. Todd Akin is telling Missouri voters: Vote for me and elect me and I will try to see that you never vote for a US Senator again and I will try to have newly enriched (bribed) state legislators re-elect me instead.
That'll work! NOT!
The only remaining question in Missouri is Steelman or Brunner.
15 posted on
05/29/2012 10:01:15 PM PDT by
BlackElk
(Viva Cristo Rey! Tom Hoefling for POTUS! Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Question - was the 17th Amendment ever actually, legally, and truthfully ratified? Evidence seems to point to “no” - between the states that took on themselves a rewording of it, states that never even voted on it, and where there is doubt that a vote was ever taken (when results were assumed before a vote was ever taken in some cases)...
16 posted on
05/29/2012 10:50:51 PM PDT by
TheBattman
(Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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